Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897
     Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
       Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats
         Genus Aethalops Thomas, 1923 - pygmy fruit bat
           Aethalops alecto (Thomas, 1923) - pygmy fruit bat
             1 [Aethalops alecto alecto] (Thomas, 1923)
             2 Aethalops alecto boeadii Kitchener, 1993
             3 Aethalops alecto ocypete Boeadi & Hill, 1986