. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Fig. 2 Anterior, dorsal and posterior aspect of left humerus of Rhinopoma microphyllum kinneari, ? BM , India. Rhinopoma microphyllum microphyllum (Briinnich, 1782) Vespertilio microphyllus Briinnich, 1782 : 50, pi. 6, figs 1-4. Arabia and Egypt: according to Anderson & de Winton (1902 : 147) the original specimen came from the 'Pyramids of Gizeh'. Type-locality fixed at Giza by Koopman (1975 : 366). Rhinopoma lepsiamim Peters, 1859: 222. Blue Nile. According to Kock (1969: 54, 57, 58) who (p. 58) designated a lectotype, from the
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Fig. 2 Anterior, dorsal and posterior aspect of left humerus of Rhinopoma microphyllum kinneari, ? BM , India. Rhinopoma microphyllum microphyllum (Briinnich, 1782) Vespertilio microphyllus Briinnich, 1782 : 50, pi. 6, figs 1-4. Arabia and Egypt: according to Anderson & de Winton (1902 : 147) the original specimen came from the 'Pyramids of Gizeh'. Type-locality fixed at Giza by Koopman (1975 : 366). Rhinopoma lepsiamim Peters, 1859: 222. Blue Nile. According to Kock (1969: 54, 57, 58) who (p. 58) designated a lectotype, from the White Nile. This author (p. 58) thought that the original material was mislabelled and actually came from Lower Egypt. Koopman (1975 : 366) restricted the type-locality to Khartoum, and suggested that the name was based on atypical material. (1) Rhinopoma cordofanicum Heuglin, 1877: 24. Araschkol Mts ( = Jebel Arashkol), Sudan. According to Koopman (1975 : 367,434), on west side of the White Nile at c. 14°15' N, 32° 10' E, Blue Nile Province. Specimens from Mauritania and Senegal seem from their published measurements (Poulet, 1970; 241; Adam & Hubert, 1972: 62) to be referable to the slightly smaller subspecies R. m. microphyllum rather than to R. m. tropicalis. Otherwise the nominate subspecies is distributed from Egypt and the Sudan through much of the Near and Middle East to Pakistan. Examples from Sind (listed as kinneari by Wroughton, 1916: 752), together with others from Ara in the northwestern Punjab and Amb and Rohtas in the Salt Range (Sind and Salt Range specimens are measured by Siddiqi (as Siddiqui), 1970: 4, tab. 1, and by Gaisler, 1970: 7, tab. I, 8, tab. 2), are referred to R. m. microphyllum by Gaisler (1970 : 7). Felten (1962 : 171, 172, tab. 1) refers two specimens from Rajasthan in northwestern India to R. m. microphyllum: the species was first reported from Rajasthan, as R. kinneari, by Prakash (1961 : 445) who subsequently (Prakash, 1963 : 154, 164,
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