Check List 19(2): 247-250, doi: 10.15560/19.2.247
First record of Lasiurus (Aeorestes) villosissimus (É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1806) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in San Juan province, Argentina
Lilen Sánchez-Castro‡§|, Gustavo A. Rivero-Castro‡§, Elias G. Ruiz-Estebes‡§|, Orlando G. A. Pastrán-López‡§|, Nicolas J. Maya-Perez‡§|, Araceli R. Leos§|‡ Grupo de Investigación y Conservación de Murciélagos de Zonas Áridas, San Juan, Argentina§ Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina| Programa de Conservación de los Murciélagos de Argentina, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Corresponding author: Lilen Sánchez-Castro ( lilensanchezcastro3@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro © Lilen Sánchez-Castro, Gustavo A. Rivero-Castro, Elias G. Ruiz-Estebes, Orlando G. A. Pastrán-López, Nicolas J. Maya-Perez, Araceli R. Leos. 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:
Sánchez-Castro L, Rivero-Castro GA, Ruiz-Estebes EG, Pastrán-López OGA, Maya-Perez NJ, Leos AR (2023) First record of Lasiurus (Aeorestes) villosissimus (É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1806) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in San Juan province, Argentina. Check List 19(2): 247-250. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.2.247 |  |
Abstract
We report the first record of Lasiurus villosissimus (É. Geoffroy & St.-Hilaire, 1806) in San Juan prov-ince, Argentina. A male, determined as a juvenile by its degree of ossification of the epiphyses of the phalanges and the color and texture of the fur, was found on 31 August 2021 in a suburban area 2.44 km south of the city of San Juan. This new report increases the richness of bat species in the province and expands the distribution of this spe-cies towards the west of the country.
Keywords
Central-western Argentina, distribution, Large Frosted Bat