Macroglossus minimus (E. Geoffroy, 1810) . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15:97.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java .

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand to Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Arch. ( Papua New Guinea), Solomon Isis, and N Australia.

SYNONYMS: fructivorus, horsfieldi, kiodotes, lagochilus, meyeri, microtus, nanus, pygmaeus, rostratus.

COMMENTS: Includes lagochilus; see Hill (1983: 134-137). Includes fructivorus; see Heaney and Rabor (1982).