 While outlining the means of determining females of the species in the field, Queale notes this population as part of a '"regulus" complex' (a species complex) that encompasses the populations later recognised as "Vespadelus vulturnus", "V. regulus" and this species, "V. baverstocki".Vernacular for the bat species include 'inland forest' and 'Baverstock's forest bat'.The epithets honour an evolutionary biologist, Peter Raymond Baverstock, whose works include examining the systematics of Australian bats.