Pipistrellus subflavus Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:90, figs. 22, 23, October 16, 1897.
Type locality.—Eastern United States, probably Georgia.
Range.—From approximately 40 degrees North Latitude in Pennsylvania and Kansas southward to central Florida and at least to extreme southern Texas; from the Atlantic Coast westward to south-central Kansas and Val Verde County, Texas. Marginal occurrences are: Kansas (K. U. Collection): 4½ mi. SW Sun City; Ft. Leavenworth. Illinois (Necker and Hatfield, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 6(3):45, 1941): Quincy; Urbana. Indiana (Lyon, Amer. Midland Nat., 17:73, 1936): Monroe County; Franklin Co. Ohio (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publs. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 5(6):115, 1942: Hamilton Co.; Smoky Creek. West Virginia (Kellogg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 84:449, 1937): Charleston; Smoke Hole Cave. Pennsylvania (Rhoads, Mamms. Pa. and N. J., p. 211, 1903): Carlisle; Germantown. New Jersey: Haddonfield (Rhoads, Mamms. Pa. and N. J., p. 211, 1903). Florida: Tarpon Springs (Sherman., Proc. Florida Acad. Sci., p. 107, 1936). Texas: Brownsville (Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 25:211, 1905); Comstock (Bailey, loc. cit.); Kerr Co. (Taylor and Davis, Game, Fish and Oyster Comm. Bull., 50:17, 1947). Oklahoma: 10 mi. S and 2 mi. E Sulphur (Blair, Amer. Midland Nat., 22:100, 1939).
Diagnosis.—Size large; eight specimens from Barber and Butler counties, Kansas, measure in total length, 84(77-89); tibia, 14.8(14.5-15); forearm, 33.5(31.8-35.3); greatest length of skull (exclusive of incisors), 12.8(12.3-13.1); breadth of braincase immediately above roots of zygomatic arches, 6.5(6.4-6.7). Color ranging from Snuff Brown to Sayal Brown.
Pipistrellus subflavus obscurus Miller
Pipistrellus subflavus obscurus Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:93, October 16, 1897.
Type locality.—Lake George, Warren County, New York.
Range.—From southern Quebec and southern Ontario south to southern Ohio and West Virginia; from the Atlantic Coast west into Wisconsin. Marginal occurrences are: Minnesota: St. Peter (Swanson and Evans, Jour. Mamm., 17:39, 1936); Marine (Swanson, Tech. Bull. No. 2, Minnesota Dept. Conservation, p. 60, 1945). Wisconsin: Hurley (Greeley and Beer, Jour. Mamm., 30:198, 1949). Quebec: Joliet (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada, Biol. ser. No. 31, Bull. 102:30, 1946). Vermont: Brandon (Osgood, Jour. Mamm., 19:436, 1938). Maine: No locality more precise than the state (Allen, Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 7(3):35, June, 1904). New York: Hastings on Hudson (Rowley, Abstr. of Proc. Linnean Soc. N. Y., for yr. ending March 11, 1902, p. 57). Pennsylvania: Beaver (Rhoads, Mamms. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 211). West Virginia: Cornwall's Cave (Frum, Jour. Mamm., 25:195, 1944). Ohio: Cat Run (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publs. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 5(6):116, 1942); Symmes Creek (Bole and Moulthrop, loc. cit.); Dry Cave (Bole and Moulthrop, loc. cit.); "Union County" (Rausch, Jour. Mamm., 27:275, 1946). Wisconsin: Devils Lake (Jackson, Jour. Mamm., 1:38, 1919).
Diagnosis.—"... color duller and less yellow, and dark tips of shorter hairs on back more conspicuous" than in [P. subflavus subflavus] according to the original description.