The Malagasy serotine (''Laephotis matroka''), is a species of

vesper bat Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ...

. It is found only in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. It was formerly classified in ''

Neoromicia ''Neoromicia'' is a genus of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It contains the following species: * Anchieta's serotine (''Neoromicia anchietae'') * Kirindy serotine (''Neoromicia bemainty'') * Yellow serotine (''Neoromicia flavescens ...

'' before phylogenetic analysis found it to belong to '' Laephotis''.

References

Laephotis Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Bats of Africa Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Mammals described in 1905 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Vespertilionidae-stub