Vesperus cubanus Gundlach, 1861

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 : 65

Vesperus cubanus Gundlach, 1861

Gundlach, J. (1861) In Peters: Eine Übersicht der von Herrn Dr. Gundlach beobachteten Flederthiere auf Cuba. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861: 150 [149–157].

Valid name: Nycticeius cubanus (Gundlach, 1861) , uncertain status.

Lectotype (here designated): ZMB 2600 , skin and skull (damaged), female, adult; [Cardenas], Cuba; collected by J. Gundlach.

Paralectotypes: ZMB 2830 , body in alcohol . ZMB 2866 , skin, skull not extracted, male, juvenile . ZMB 2867 , skin, skull not extracted, juvenile. All specimens from Cuba, leg. J. Gundlach.

Comment: In the original description the type locality is cited “as shot over a field at San Juan near Cardenas”. The description also gives external measurements of a dry specimen, which are identical with those of the female ZMB 2600 (remeasured), hence this specimen is here designated as the lectotype .

Vesperus damarensis NOACK, 1889

Noack, T. (1889) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Säugethierfauna von Süd- und Südwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, 4: 213 [94–261].

Valid name: Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith, 1829)

Syntypes: ZMB 86231 (old number = A 4902), skin and skull, female, adult. Uncatalogued (old number = A 4903), skin without skull in alcohol (missing), female, adult. Both specimens from Omburo, “Damaraland” (= country of the Damara), Namibia; collected by Schinz, August 1886 .

Comment : Noack described Vesperus damarensis from three female syntypes , two of which were in the Berlin collections, however, only one [ ZMB 86231] was located during this survey. The third syntype is in the collections of the Zoological Institute of University Zurich, Switzerland (Marianne Haffner, pers. comm.). The description records two collecting localities for the syntypes ; besides Omburo (see above), it also lists Golabu (= Golabie) in Damaraland, which might be the locality of the Zurich syntype .