Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1866 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866:17.

TYPE LOCALITY: SE Europe; restricted to Italy by Ellerman et aL (1953:59) .

DISTRIBUTION: Transvaal (South Africa) to S Zaire; Ethiopia; Somalia; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Turkey; Yemen; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Iran; Yugoslavia; Albania; Bulgaria; Rumania; Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Italy; Greece; Cyprus.

SYNONYMS: andreinii, brockmani, empusa, meyeroehmi.

COMMENTS: Includes brockmani; see Koopman (1975:383).