Eptesicini: the serotines and their relatives (vesper bats part XIV)
Arielulus pipistrelles (once included within Pipistrellus), the Silver-haired bat Nycticeius) (Roehrs If serotines, butterfly bats and evening bats do form a clade, the names Eptesicini and Nycticeini (or Nycticeiini) are both available: Nycticeini Gervais, 1855 very much has priority (Eptesicini wasn't used - I think - until published by Volleth & Heller (1984)), but Roehrs et al. (2010) noted that "more effort will be required to resolve the position of Nycticeius [and what impact it might have] on the nomenclature of this clade" (p. 1084) [the relevant part of the cladogram is shown ...
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