Lasiurus Gray 1831

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 : 458

Lasiurus Gray 1831

Lasiurus Gray 1831 , Zool. Misc., Vol. 1: 38.

Type Species: Vespertilio borealis Müller 1776

Synonyms: Atalapha Peters 1871 .

Species and subspecies: 17 species with 14 subspecies in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Lasiurus (Lasiurus) Gray 1831

Subgenus Lasiurus (Dasypterus) H. Allen 1894

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) atratus Handley 1996

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii (Lesson and Garnot 1826)

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. blossevillii Lesson and Garnot 1826

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. brachyotis J. A. Allen 1882

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. frantzii Peters 1871

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. teliotis H. Allen 1891

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) borealis (Müller 1776)

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) castaneus Handley 1960

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois 1796)

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. cinereus Palisot de Beauvois 1796

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. semotus H. Allen 1890

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. villosissimus E. Geoffroy 1806

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) degelidus Miller 1931

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) ebenus Fazzolari-Corrêa 1994

Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega Gervais 1856

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. ega Gervais 1856

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. argentinus Thomas 1901

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. caudatus Tomes 1857

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. fuscatus Thomas 1901

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. panamensis Thomas 1901

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) egregius Peters 1870

Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) insularis Hall and Jones 1961

Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius H. Allen 1862

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius subsp. intermedius H. Allen 1862

Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius subsp. floridanus Miller 1902

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) minor Miller 1931

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) pfeifferi Gundlach 1861

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) salinae Thomas 1902

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) seminolus Rhoads 1895

Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) varius Poeppig 1835

Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) xanthinus Thomas 1897

Discussion: Treated under the name Nycteris by Hall (1981). In Opinion 111 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1929 b), Lasiurus was adopted rather than Nycteris . Atalapha was used for this genus until the early 20th century, when application of the name to bats now included in Lasiurus was shown to date from Peters, not Rafinesque ( Hall and Jones, 1961). Includes Dasypterus ; see Hall and Jones (1961). Two subgenera are recognized, Lasiurus and Dasypterus . Keys to the genus were presented by Hall and Jones (1961) and Shump and Shump (1982 a); see also Handley (1996). Species groups in the subgenus Lasiurus generally follow results of Morales and Bickham (1995).