Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 451 529 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Myotis blythii Tomes 1857 Myotis blythii Tomes 1857 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857: 53 . Type Locality: India , Rajasthan , Nasirabad. Vernacular Names: Lesser Mouse-eared Myotis . Subspecies: : Subspecies Myotis blythii subsp. blythii Tomes 1857 Subspecies Myotis blythii subsp. ancilla Thomas 1910 Subspecies Myotis blythii subsp. lesviacus Iliopoulou 1984 Subspecies Myotis blythii subsp. omari Thomas 1906 Distribution: Turkey and Israel to Iraq and Iran ; NW India and the Himalayas; NW Altai Mtns; Inner Mongolia and Shensi ( China ). Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: For discussion of synonyms see Strelkov (1972) , Felten et al. (1977) , Corbet (1978 c ) , Bogan et al. (1978) , and Horácek et al. (2000). Middle Eastern records reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991) , Palearctic records by Horácek et al. (2000). Does not include oxygnathus and punicus , which together with blythii form a paraphyletic assemblage that includes myotis ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001) . In order to restrict all species to potentially monophyletic groups of populations, oxygnathus and punicus are here treated as separate species. It is possible that ancilla , lesviacus , and/or omari may also be distinct, but these are here retained in blythii pending further study. Zhang Yongzu et al. (1997) included ancilla in myotis , but this is apparently incorrect; see Horácek et al. (2000).