{{Short description|Genus of bats}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Vespadelus vulturnus thumb.jpg | image_caption = Little forest bat (''Vespadelus vulturnus'') | taxon = Vespadelus | authority = Troughton, 1943<ref name="MSW3" /> | type_species = ''Scotophilus pumilus'' | type_species_authority = Gray, 1841 | subdivision_ranks= Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Vespadelus''''' is a genus of Australian bats in the family Vespertilionidae.
The genus name was first published by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton and Tom Iredale in 1934, but without an adequate description; the type was cited as ''Scotophilus pumilus'' Gray, 1841.<ref name="Iredale1934" /> The 1934 review included taxa previously ascribed to other genera and placed these with the proposed arrangement, the type species was assigned to a new combination as ''Vespadelus pumilus''.<ref name="Iredale1934" /><ref name="MSW3" /> Troughton later provided a diagnosis for the genus in 1943, making this name available. Other circumscriptions have assigned these species to genera ''Pipistrellus'' and ''Eptesicus''. Reëlevated to genus with new combinations.<ref name="Queale1997" /> Also known as forest bats, cave bats, little brown bats.
An earlier treatment of populations had placed them as the sole species of ''Eptesicus'' (''E. pumilus''). The separation to this genus followed comparative studies that recognised its diversity and nominated new species (Kitchener, 1987; Queale.). Subsequent authors recognition of the arrangement published as ''Vespadelus'' by Troughton in 1943 saw the name of this genus reëstablished.<ref name="Kitchener1987" /><ref name="Queale1997" />
The following nine species are currently recognised.<ref name="MSW3" /><ref name="Jackson2015" />
* ''Vespadelus baverstocki'' (Kitchener ''et al'', 1987).<ref name="Kitchener1987" /> aka: Baverstock's or inland forest bat * ''Vespadelus caurinus'' (Thomas, 1914).<ref name="Thomas1914" /> northern cave bat * ''Vespadelus darlingtoni''. (Allen, 1933).<ref name="Allen1933" /> large forest bat * ''Vespadelus douglasorum'' (Kitchener, 1976).<ref name="Kitchener1976" /> yellow-lipped bat * ''Vespadelus finlaysoni''. (Kitchener ''et al'', 1987).<ref name="Kitchener1987" /> Finlayson's cave bat * ''Vespadelus pumilus'' (Gray, 1841). eastern forest bat * ''Vespadelus regulus'' (Thomas, 1906).<ref name="Thomas1906" /> southern forest bat * ''Vespadelus troughtoni''. eastern cave bat * ''Vespadelus vulturnus''. little forest bat
==References == {{Reflist|1|refs= <ref name="Allen1933">{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Glover M. |title=Two New Bats from Australia |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |date=May 1933 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=149–151 |doi=10.2307/1374021|jstor=1374021 }}</ref> <ref name="Iredale1934">{{cite journal |last1=Iredale |first1=T. |last2=Troughton |first2=Ellis Le G. |title=A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia |journal=Australian Museum Memoir |date=4 May 1934 |volume=6 |pages=1–122 |doi=10.3853/j.0067-1967.6.1934.516|doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name="Jackson2015">{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=S.M. |last2=Groves |first2=C. |title=Taxonomy of Australian Mammals |date=2015 |publisher=Csiro Publishing |isbn=9781486300136 |page=460 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RPznCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA460 |language=en}}</ref> <ref name="Kitchener1976">{{cite journal |last1=Kitchener |first1=D.J. |title=''Eptesicus douglasi'', a new vespertilionid bat from Kimberley, Western Australia |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=1976 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=295–301 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/219521#page/316/mode/1up |issn=0312-3162}}</ref> <ref name="Kitchener1987">{{cite journal |last1=Kitchener |first1=D.J.|author1-link=Darrell Kitchener |last2=Jones |first2=B. |last3=Caputi |first3=N. |title=Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=1987 |volume=13 |pages=427–500 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244929 |issn=0312-3162}}</ref> <ref name="MSW3">{{MSW3 Chiroptera |id=13802299|heading=Genus ''Vespadelus''}}</ref> <ref name="Queale1997">{{cite journal |last1=Queale |first1=L.F. |title=Field identification of female little brown bats ''Vespadelus'' Spp. (Chiroptera : Vespertilionidae) in South Australia |journal=Records of the South Australian Museum |date=1997 |volume=30 |issue=1997–1998 |pages=28–33 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40728192#page/32/mode/1up }}</ref> <ref name="Thomas1906">{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=O. |title=On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1906 |volume=1906 |pages=468–478 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/69874#/summary |issn=0370-2774}}</ref> <ref name="Thomas1914">{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=O. |title=New Asiatic and Australasian bats and a new bandicoot |journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology |date=1914 |volume=13 |issue=76 |pages=439–444 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/58356 |issn=0374-5481|doi=10.1080/00222931408693506 }}</ref> }}
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