Mehdi Dezhman - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Amir Pourshabanan - Ferdowsi university of Mashhad
Mehdi Elahi - Ferdowsi university of Mashhad
Hassan Maddahi - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

The Alpine long-eared bat, Plecotus macrobullaris Kuzjakin, ۱۹۶۵ is distributed in western half of Iran. The previous easternmost occurrence of this species was from Gandab (Semnan province), while the distribution of this species is poorly known. In the present study, P. macrobullaris is recorded from NE of Iran (Moghan cave, Khorasan-e-Razavi province) for the first time. Moreover, the presence of the Lesser Mouse-eared Myotis, Myotis blythii (Tomes, ۱۸۵۷) in the cave is confirmed after ۱۹۹۹.

Plecotus macrobullaris, Moghan cave, Khorasan-e-Razavi, Iran, first record