Vespertilio blepotis Temminck, 1840

Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1869 (1), pp. 1-82 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5134209
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787D2-8931-FF95-FF06-8ECCC6F5F967
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scientific name	Vespertilio blepotis Temminck, 1840
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Temminck, C. J. (1840) Monographies de mammalogie, ou Description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Tome 2: 212 [1–392]. Leiden, 1835–1841.

Valid name: Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817) – complex

Paralectotypes: ZMB 2556 View Materials (three specimens), bodies in alcohol, skulls not extracted; Java, Indonesia; ex RMNH. ZMB 2641 View Materials , skin, skull not extracted, male, adult and ZMB 2642 View Materials , skin; both specimens from Moluccas, Indonesia; ex RMNH.

Comment: Temminck (1840: 214) gave the origin of his blepotis specimens [= syntypes] as from Java, Timor , Amboina (= Ambon), Moluccas, Indonesia, and Japan (collected by Bürger). Tate (1940: 9) listed four “cotypes” in RMNH: “d” (one mounted skin, skull not extracted), leg. de Boie, Java ; “e” (one mounted skin, skull extracted 1937), leg. Kuhl & van Hasselt, Java ; “f” and “g” (two mounted skins, skulls not extracted), Java. Tate (1941f: 572) suggested naming specimen “e” ( RMNH 25076 View Materials ) as the lectotype .