First record of <em>Platyrrhinus albericoi</em> Velazco, 2005 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in the eastern slope of the Central Andes of Colombia

Check List 14(6): 1161-1167, doi: 10.15560/14.6.1

First record of Platyrrhinus albericoi Velazco, 2005 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in the eastern slope of the Central Andes of Colombia

Leidy A. Ramírez-Fráncel^‡, Leidy V. García-Herrera^‡, Gladys Reinoso Florez^‡

‡ Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia

Corresponding author: Leidy A. Ramírez-Fráncel ( laramirezfr@ut.edu.co )

Academic editor: Paul Velazco

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Citation: Ramírez-Fráncel LA, García-Herrera LV, Reinoso Florez G (2018) First record of Platyrrhinus albericoi Velazco, 2005 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in the eastern slope of the Central Andes of Colombia. Check List 14(6): 1161-1167. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.1

Abstract

We report the first record of the bat Platyrrhinus albericoi Velazco, 2005 on the eastern slope of the Colombian Central Andes. Currently there are records of this species on the western slope of the Central Andes, eastern slope of the western Andes, and both slope of the eastern Andes in Colombia. We performed a morphological review of the specimens from several Colombian collections and analyzed their character variation, life zone, and distribution in Colombia. The geographic range of P. albericoi is increased and a new life zone, Premontane Wet Forest (bmh-PM in Spanish), is added to its distribution.

Keywords

Range expansion, Neotropics, Tolima Department, bat