Mimetillus

{{Short description|Genus of bats}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Mimetellus moloneyi.jpg

| image_caption = Moloney's mimic bat (M. moloneyi)

| taxon = Mimetillus

| authority = Thomas, 1904

| type_species = Vesperugo (Vesperus) moloneyi

| type_species_authority = Thomas, 1891

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = M. moloneyi

M. thomasi

}}

Mimetillus is a genus of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It contains two species, both known as mimic bats and found in sub-Saharan Africa.{{Citation|last=Database|first=Mammal Diversity|title=Mammal Diversity Database|date=2021-08-10|url=https://zenodo.org/record/5175993|publisher=Zenodo|access-date=2021-09-25}}{{Cite journal|last=Miller-Butterworth|first=Cassandra|date=2012-03-01|title=Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis by Ara Monadjem, Peter John Taylor, F. P. D. (Woody) Cotterill, and M. Corrie Schoeman|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/663943|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=87|issue=1|pages=75–76|doi=10.1086/663943|issn=0033-5770|url-access=subscription}}

There are two species in this genus:

• Moloney's mimic bat, Mimetillus moloneyi
• Thomas's mimic bat, Mimetillus thomasi

Previously, Mimetillus was thought to be a monotypic genus containing only M. moloneyi, but phylogenetic evidence has found M. thomasi to be a distinct species.