First occurrence of the recently described Patricia’s Disk-winged bat Thyroptera wynneae (Chiroptera: Thyropteridae) in Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil

João Hoppe; Vinícius Pimenta; Albert Ditchfield

doi:10.15560/10.3.645

Check List 10(3): 645-647, doi: 10.15560/10.3.645

First occurrence of the recently described Patricia’s Disk-winged bat Thyroptera wynneae (Chiroptera: Thyropteridae) in Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil

João Paulo Maires Hoppe^‡, Vinícius Teixeira Pimenta^‡, Albert David Ditchfield^‡

‡ Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil

Corresponding author: João Hoppe ( jpmhoppe@gmail.com )

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Citation: Hoppe J, Pimenta V, Ditchfield A (2014) First occurrence of the recently described Patricia’s Disk-winged bat Thyroptera wynneae (Chiroptera: Thyropteridae) in Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil. Check List 10(3): 645-647. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.3.645

Abstract

We report the first confirmed record of the family Thyropteridae and the recently described species Thyroptera wynneae Velazco et al. 2014 to the Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil, representing a range extension eastward of about 250 km for the species. The specimen was collected on a highway (BR-101), run over by a vehicle, in the Reserva Biológica de Sooretama, on October 25th, 2010.

Keywords

Chiroptera; Thyropteridae