# Scotorepens

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{{Short description|Genus of bats}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Scotorepens balstoni.JPG
| image_caption = [Inland broad-nosed bat](/source/Inland_broad-nosed_bat) (''Scotorepens balstoni'')
| taxon = Scotorepens
| authority = [Troughton](/source/Ellis_Le_Geyt_Troughton), 1943
| type_species = ''[Scoteinus orion](/source/Scotorepens_orion)''
| type_species_authority = Troughton, 1937
}}

'''''Scotorepens''''' is a genus of bats within the [Vespertilionidae](/source/Vespertilionidae) family. Species within this genus are widely distributed across Australia and to the north at Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

== Taxonomy ==
The genus was erected by [Ellis Troughton](/source/Ellis_Troughton) in his 1943 volume on Australian mammals,<ref name="lASKA" /> having previously identified new taxa of "broad-nosed bats".
The type species is ''Scoteinus orion'', published by Troughton in 1937.<ref name="Troughton1937" /> The taxa have been allied to the genus ''[Nycticeius](/source/Nycticeius)'', as given in Troughton's earlier descriptions, but recognised as a genus in other author's arrangements.
''Scotorepens'' has been allied to the [Vespertilionini](/source/Vespertilionini) tribe of the subfamily [Vespertilioninae](/source/Vespertilioninae), or grouped with [Nycticeiini](/source/Nycticeiini) in earlier revisions.<ref name="MSW3" />

The authority [Mammal Species of the World](/source/Mammal_Species_of_the_World) (2003), recognised the species and subspecies of the genus, which may be summarised as
* '''Scotorepens'''
:* ''[Scotorepens balstoni](/source/Scotorepens_balstoni)'' the inland broad-nosed bat
::* ''Scotorepens bastoni bastoni''
::* ''Scotorepens bastoni influatus''
:* ''[Scotorepens greyii](/source/Scotorepens_greyii)'' little broad-nosed
:* ''[Scotorepens orion](/source/Scotorepens_orion)'' eastern species
:* ''[Scotorepens sanborni](/source/Scotorepens_sanborni)'' northern species

The systematics of the genus are suggested to be poorly resolved. An undescribed species somewhat resembling ''[Scotorepens orion](/source/Scotorepens_orion)'', although smaller in size and weight, is designated the "central-eastern broad-nosed bat" pending further investigation.<ref name="Menkhorst2011" /><ref name="MSW3" />

== Description ==
A genus of moderately small [microchiropteran](/source/microchiropteran)s, the face is distinguished the lack of hair on the muzzle or the elaborate nose-leaf structure of other genera.<ref name="Troughton1937" />

==References==
<references>
<ref name="lASKA">''[Furred Animals of Australia](/source/Furred_Animals_of_Australia)'', 1st ed., Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 354.</ref>
<ref name="Menkhorst2011">{{cite book |last1=Menkhorst |first1=P.W. |last2=Knight |first2=F. |author-link1=Peter Menkhorst |author2-link=Frank Knight |title=A field guide to the mammals of Australia |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Melbourne |isbn=9780195573954 |page=170 |edition=3rd}}</ref>
<ref name="MSW3">{{MSW3 Chiroptera|id=13801993}}</ref>
<ref name="Troughton1937">{{cite journal |last1=Troughton |first1=E. |title=Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region |journal=The Australian Zoologist |date=1937 |volume=8 |pages=274–281 [280] |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49902}}</ref>
</references>

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Category:Scotorepens
Category:Bat genera
Category:Taxa named by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton

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