Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth, 1844

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 166-167

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Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth, 1844 View in CoL View at ENA . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13:486.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Bengal, Calcutta (uncertain) .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, N India, Burma, Thailand, Szechwan and Yunnan ( China), W Malaysia, Sumatra.

SYNONYMS: cuneatus, feae , monticola , refulgens , shortridgei .

COMMENTS: Includes feae , monticola , and refulgens ; see Hill and Yoshiyuki (1980:180, 186); but also see Sinha (1973:620-621) who considered monticola a distinct species.

Hill, J. E., and M. Yoshiyuki. 1980. A new species of Rhinolophus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands, with notes on the Asiatic members of the Rhinolophus pusillus group. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), ser. A (Zoology), 6: 179 - 189.

Sinha, Y. P. 1973. Taxonomic studies on the Indian horseshoe bats of the genus Rhinolophus Lacepede. Mammalia, 37: 603 - 630.