Histiotus magellanicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) is not restricted to Subantarctic forests: first record for the Coastal Maulino Forest in central Chile

Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro; Rubén Barquez; Javier Simonetti

doi:10.15560/11.2.1576

Check List 11(2): e19174, doi: 10.15560/11.2.1576

Histiotus magellanicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) is not restricted to Subantarctic forests: first record for the Coastal Maulino Forest in central Chile

Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro^‡, Rubén M. Barquez^§, Javier A. Simonetti^‡

‡ Universidad de Chile, Chile§ Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina

Corresponding author: Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro ( sanpedro@ug.uchile.cl )

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Citation: Rodríguez-San Pedro A, Barquez R, Simonetti J (2015) Histiotus magellanicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) is not restricted to Subantarctic forests: first record for the Coastal Maulino Forest in central Chile. Check List 11(2): 1576. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1576

Abstract

The southern Big-Eared Brown Bat, Histiotus magellanicus, is a poorly known vespertilionid occurring only in southern Chile and Argentina, where it appears to be restricted to Valdivian Temperate Forests and Magellanic Subpolar Forests. Here we report the first record of H. magellanicus in the Maulino Temperate Forest of central Chile, a Mediterranean-climate ecosystem, suggesting that the species might not be exclusive to subantarctic forests, as previously thought. This constitutes the northernmost continental record for the species, extending its range ca. 400 km the previous known northern locality

Keywords

Chilean temperate forest; distribution range; new record; Southern Big-Eared Brown Bat