Vespertilio sinensis Peters 1880

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 498

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scientific name	Vespertilio sinensis Peters 1880
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Vespertilio sinensis Peters 1880 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880: 259.

Type Locality: Peking ( China).

Vernacular Names: Asian Particolored Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Vespertilio sinensis subsp. sinensis Peters 1880

Subspecies Vespertilio sinensis subsp. andersoni Wallin 1963

Subspecies Vespertilio sinensis subsp. namiyei Kuroda 1920

Subspecies Vespertilio sinensis subsp. noctula Namie 1889

Subspecies Vespertilio sinensis subsp. orientalis Wallin 1969

Distribution: China, Ussuri region ( Russia), Korea, Japan, Taiwan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as Vespertilio superans .

Discussion: Includes nameiyei and orientalis ; see Yoshiyuki (1989) and Horácek (1997). The name superans was commonly applied to this taxon until Horácek (1997) demonstrated that sinensis (erroneously grouped in Nyctalus in previous classifications) is the oldest name for the species.