First record of the White-winged Vampire bat, <em>Diaemus youngii</em> (Jentink, 1893) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the state of Goiás, Brazil, with a revised distribution map

Check List 15(1): 55-64, doi: 10.15560/15.1.55

First record of the White-winged Vampire bat, Diaemus youngii (Jentink, 1893) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the state of Goiás, Brazil, with a revised distribution map

João Paulo Maires Hoppe^‡, Gabriella Marchezi^‡, Albert David Ditchfield^‡

‡ Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

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

Academic editor: Marcelo Nogueira

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Citation: Hoppe JPM, Marchezi G, Ditchfield AD (2019) First record of the White-winged Vampire bat, Diaemus youngii (Jentink, 1893) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the state of Goiás, Brazil, with a revised distribution map. Check List 15(1): 55-64. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.1.55

Abstract

Diaemus youngii (Jentink, 1893) is a widespread species occurring from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Along its distribution, however, this bat is rare to uncommon. Here, we report its record for the state of Goiás, central-western Brazil, based on a specimen found in the mammal collection of the Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica, former Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão. Diaemus youngii is known from 129 unique localities, with 81 (over 62%) in Brazil, followed by Peru (7), Bolivia (6) and Venezuela (6). It is absent in the west of the Andes, southern Argentina, Uruguay, and Caribbean islands, except for Trinidad.

Keywords

Cerrado, Desmodontinae, Neotropical region, scientific collection