Fernando Carvalho‡, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla§, Karolaine Porto Supi|, Luana da Silva Biz¶, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano#, Jairo José Zocche#Corresponding author: Fernando Carvalho ( f.carvalho@unesc.net ) Academic editor: Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro © Fernando Carvalho, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Karolaine Porto Supi, Luana da Silva Biz, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano, Jairo José Zocche. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Carvalho F, Bôlla DAS, Supi KP, Biz LS, Luciano BFL, Zocche JJ (2019) First record of Lasiurus egregius (Peters, 1870) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Paraná state, southern Brazil. Check List 15(6): 1099-1105. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.6.1099 |  |
Lasiurus egregius (Peters, 1870) is an insectivorous bat species known from Central and South America. This species has few confirmed records throughout its distribution. Here we report the first record of L. egregius from the northern coast of Paraná state, southern Brazil. We captured a female individual of L. egregius using an ultrathin mist-net installed over a river knee, at Salto Morato Natural Reserve, municipality of Guaraqueçaba. This is the fourteenth locality with confirmed occurrence of L. egregius, being eight of them in Brazil. The knowledge on the bat fauna in Paraná has been increasing in recent decades, mainly due to the new studies in coast areas of this state. In addition to contributing to the knowledge of the bat fauna from Paraná, the new record of L. egregius reinforces the essential role of the Salto Morato Natural Reserve in conserving bats in the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest.