''Plecotus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

vesper bat Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat famili ...

, commonly called long-eared bats. They are found throughout

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelag ...

and

northern Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

. Many

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

in the

have only been described and recognized in recent years.

Species

Genus ''Plecotus'' – long-eared bats *

Brown long-eared bat The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (''Plecotus auritus'') is a small Eurasian insectivorous bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It is extremely similar to the much rarer grey long-eared bat which was ...

, ''Plecotus auritus'' *

Grey long-eared bat The grey long-eared bat (''Plecotus austriacus'') is a fairly large European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It hunts above woodland, often by day, and mostly for moths. In captivity, it has also been recorded ...

, ''Plecotus austriacus'' *

Ethiopian long-eared bat The Ethiopian long-eared bat or Ethiopian big-eared bat (''Plecotus balensis'') is a species of long-eared bat in the family Vespertilionidae. Description The Ethiopian long-eared bat is a typical medium-size representative of the genus ''Ple ...

, ''Plecotus balensis'' *

Christie's long-eared bat Christie's long-eared bat (''Plecotus christii''), also known as the Egyptian long-eared bat, Christie's big-eared bat, or gray long-eared bat, is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is known from North Africa and the Middle ...

, ''Plecotus christii'' *

Gaisler's long-eared bat Gaisler's long-eared bat (''Plecotus gaisleri'') is a species of bat in the genus ''Plecotus''. It is a medium-sized grayish-brown and found in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. Taxonomy ''Plecotus gaisleri'' was described as a new subspeci ...

, ''Plecotus gaisleri'' * Himalayan long-eared bat, ''Plecotus homochrous'' *

Mediterranean long-eared bat The Mediterranean long-eared bat (''Plecotus kolombatovici''), also known as Kolombatovic's long-eared bat, is a species of vesper bat ranging from Italy east through the Balkans east to Syria, and south to Jordan. Taxonomy The species was d ...

, ''Plecotus kolombatovici'' * Kozlov's long-eared bat, ''Plecotus kozlovi'' * Alpine long-eared bat, ''Plecotus macrobullaris'' * Ognev's long-eared bat ''Plecotus ognevi'' * Japanese long-eared bat, ''Plecotus sacrimontis'' * Sardinian long-eared bat, ''Plecotus sardus'' * Strelkov's long-eared bat, ''Plecotus strelkovi'' * Taiwan long-eared bat, ''Plecotus taivanus'' * Canary long-eared bat, ''Plecotus teneriffae'' * Turkmen long-eared bat, ''Plecotus turkmenicus'' * Ward's long-eared bat, ''Plecotus wardi''

References

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Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Bat genera {{Vespertilionidae-stub