Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats Family Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 - vespertilionid bats Subfamily Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821 Genus Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820 - big brown bats Eptesicus capensis (A. Smith, 1829) see Neoromicia capensis (Smith, 1829)