Myotis capaccinii was once classified as a subspecies of Myotis capaccinii. However, Ellerman et al. (1951) separate it as a species, and Hanak et al. (1969), Corbet (1978), Bates (1997) and other scholars have also recognized this view. M. capaccinii is found mainly in the Mediterranean, the European Archipelago, northwest Africa, Iraq, Iran, and Uzbekistan (Simmons,2005), and has little overlap with the long-finged Myotis bat. Wang Song et al. (2001) first translated <M.longipes> as "long-fingered Myotis" and <M. capaccinii> as "long-fingered myotis", but Pan Qinghua et al. (2007) and Smith et al. (2009) both translated <M. Longipes > as "long-fingered myotis." From the English name, the former is Kashmir Cave Myotis, the latter is Long-fingered Myotis, that is, <M. capaccinii> translated as "long-fingered myotis" is more appropriate. However, this paper still follows the views of Pan Qinghua et al. (2007) and Smith et al. (2008), and the Chinese name of "M. longipes" is still "long-fingered Myoetis".
This large population (2000-5000 individuals) lives in caves at altitudes of 1300-1754m, and the females gather together during pregnancy and lactation, with the birth and lactation season in June every year (Topal,1974). The specimens from Nanling in Guangdong Province were collected from a water conservancy cave built by a power plant. The cave was about 2km long and 2m high, with water all the year round. In the cave, Rhinolophus chinensis and Rhinolophus parvus were also found.
