 How in February 1980.Authors have placed this with the '"pumilus" group' of the genus, an uncertain alliance of the species "Vespadelus pumilus" and other taxa.A paper in 1994 recognised the population as species "Vespadelus vulturnus", which it closely resembles, but this species concept was cited in a later arrangement in a paper providing a diagnostic of female 'little brown bats' assigned to genus "Vespadelus" (Queale, 1997; "et al").