Just like the more than 200 species of Flying Fox distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions, the Formosan Flying Fox belongs to the "Megachiroptera" group of bats, which are characterized by having large eyes, simple ears, and, in most cases, no echolocation system.
台灣狐蝠與分佈在熱帶與亞熱帶的兩百多種狐蝠一樣，屬「大翼手目」。