Vespertilio

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Ordo: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohort: Theria
Cohort: Eutheria
Cohort: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Ordo: Chiroptera
Subordo: Microchiroptera
Superfamilia: Vespertilionoidea

Familia: Vespertilionidae
Subfamilia: Vespertilioninae
Tribus: Vespertilionini
Genus: Vespertilio
Species (2): V. murinus – V. sinensis
Name

Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758: 31 [conserved name]

Type species: Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758, by Linnaean tautonymy.
Gender: masculine.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 91 (1926: 2) and Direction 98 (1958: 129).

Synonymy

Vesperugo Keyserling & Blasius, 1839: 312
Vesperus Keyserling & Blasius, 1839: 313 [as subgenus of Vesperugo; preoccupied by Vesperus Latreille, 1829]
Meteorus Kolenati, 1856: 131 [as subgenus of Vesperus; preoccupied by Meteorus Haliday, 1835]
Type species: Vespertilio discolor Kuhl, 1817, by subsequent designation by Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000)]
"Aristippe" Kolenati, 1863: 40
Type species: Vespertilio discolor Kuhl, 1817, by subsequent designation by Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000)]
Marsipolaemus Peters, 1872: 260 [as subgenus of Vesperus]
Type species: Vesperus (Marsipolaemus) albiventris Peters, 1872, by monotypy.
Adelonycteris Allen, 1892: 466 [replacement name for Vesperus Blasius & Keyserling, 1839]

References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.
Keyserling, E.G. von & Blasius, J.H. 1839. Uebersicht der Gattungs- und Artcharaktere der europäischen Fledermäuse. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 5(1): 293–331. BHL Reference page.
Kolenati, F.A. 1856. Europa’s Chiroptern. I. Synopsis der Europäischen Chiroptern. Allgemeine deutsche Naturhistorische Zeitung N.F. 2(4): 121–133. Reference page.
Kolenati, F.A. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Phtirio-Myiarien. Versuch einer Monographiae der Aphanipteren, Nycteribien und Strebliden. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 2: 10–101. BHL Reference page.
Peters, W. 1872. Mittheilung über neue Flederthiere (Phyllorhina micropus, Harpyiocephalus Huttoni, Murina grisea, Vesperugo micropus, Vesperus (Marsipoloemus) albigularis, Vesperus propinquus, tenuipinnis). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1872: 256–264. BHL Reference page.
Allen, H. [1891] 1892. Change of name of a genus of bats. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1891: 466. BHL Reference page.
International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1926. Opinion 91. Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1–2. BHL Reference page.
International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Direction 98. Interpretation under the Plenary Powers of the nominal species Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758, and Insertion in the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of a Revised entry relating to the generic name Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 (class Mammalia) (Direction supplementary to Opinion 91). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1F(9): 127–160. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Template:Miller, 1897

Horáček, I. 1997. Status of Vesperus sinensis Peters, 1880 and remarks on the genus Vespertilio. Vespertilio 2: 59–72. PDF Reference page.

Links

Vespertilio in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Vernacular names
български: Кожовидни прилепи
Deutsch: Zweifarbfledermäuse
English: Parti-coloured Bats
ქართული: ღამურა
қазақша: Екітүсті жарқанаттар
українська: Лилик

Vespertilio is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. The common name for this family is vesper bats, which is a better known classification than Vespertilio. Also: frosted bats.

Species within the genus Vespertilio are:

Parti-coloured bat, Vespertilio murinus
Asian parti-coloured bat, Vespertilio sinensis

History

Vespertilio is the oldest accepted genus name for bats. When Vespertilio was described in 1758, it was equivalent to the modern taxonomic order, encompassing all of Chiroptera (all bats), which Carl Linnaeus grouped with the primates due to certain characteristics mentioned by Linnaeus that bats seemed to share with actual primates. The second chiropteran genus, Pteropus, was described four years later in 1762. Vespertilio, as the oldest genus name, is thus the type genus of the family Vespertilionidae, which was not described until 1821.[1] Variably, until 1779, Vespertilio was considered either the only chiropteran genus, or one of two, including Pteropus. It was considered by some to be the only genus of bats until as late as 1817.[2]
References

Hutcheon, James M.; Kirsch, John A. W. (2006). "A moveable face: Deconstructing the Microchiroptera and a new classification of extant bats". Acta Chiropterologica. 8: 1–10. doi:10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8[1:AMFDTM]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1733-5329.

Miller, Jr., Gerrit S. (1907). "The Families and Genera of Bats". United States National Museum Bulletin. 57: 3.

D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.