Check List 15(6): 973-978, doi: 10.15560/15.6.973
First record of Histiotus velatus I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Salta province, Argentina
Sofía T. Aramayo‡, M. Mónica Díaz§|, María Daniela Miotti¶, E.J. Derlindati#‡ Programa de Conservación de los Murciélagos de Argentina, Salta, Argentina§ Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina| Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina¶ Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina# Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina
Corresponding author: M. Mónica Díaz ( mmdiaz@lillo.org.ar ) Academic editor: Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan © Sofía T. Aramayo, M. Mónica Díaz, María Daniela Miotti, E.J. Derlindati. 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.
Citation:
Aramayo ST, Díaz MM, Miotti MD, Derlindati EJ (2019) First record of Histiotus velatus I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Salta province, Argentina. Check List 15(6): 973-978. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.6.973 |  |
Abstract
We present here the first record of Histiotus velatus I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824 for the province of Salta, Argentina. Until now, in Argentina, this species was only known from Jujuy, Corrientes, and Misiones provinces. Our record adds a fourth province to the distribution of this species in the country and the second record for the Northwestern Argentina, rising to 39 the number of bat species in Salta. We captured three adult males with mist-nets placed in Parque Nacional El Rey. This site represents one of the last largest continuous blocks of protected forests, within a region affected by the greatest anthropic transformation (e.g. agricultural development, cattle grazing) of northwestern Argentina.
Keywords
Distribution, Histiotus, northwestern Argentina, Yungas