Artibeus lituratus
(I. von Olfers, 1818)
Great Fruit-eating Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Noctilionoidea |
| Family | : Phyllostomidae |
| Subfamily | : Stenodermatinae |
| Tribe | : Stenodermatini |
| Genus | : Artibeus |
Species status
Authority citation
Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkungen zu Illiger's Ueberblick der Säugthiere, nach ihrer Vertheilung über die Welttheile, rücksichtlich der Südamericanischen Arten (Species). Pp. 192–237 in Eschwege, W.L. (eds.). Journal von Brasilien, oder vermischte Nachrichten aus Brasilien, auf wissenschaftlichen Reisen gesammelt. Zweiter Heft. Privilegirtes Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 304 pp.
Authority publication link
https://archive.org/details/DELTA54086_2FA/page/n215Original name as described
Phyllostomus lituratus
Other common names
Great Artibeus
Type locality
"Paraguay." Restricted by A. Cabrera in 1958 to Asunción, Paraguay.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic · Neotropic
Country distribution
Mexico · Guatemala · Belize · El Salvador? · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Grenada · Barbados · Martinique · Saint Lucia · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina
Taxonomy notes
previously included A. intermedius, although that taxon is still regularly considered a synonym of A. lituratus; limited molecular and morphological distinctions currently justify the recognition of A. intermedius as a distinct species
Taxonomy notes citation
Redondo, R. A., Brina, L. P., Silva, R. F., Ditchfield, A. D., & Santos, F. R. (2008). Molecular systematics of the genus Artibeus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 49(1), 44-58. · Larsen, P. A., Marchán-Rivadeneira, M. R., & Baker, R. J. (2013). Speciation dynamics of the fruit-eating bats (genus Artibeus): with evidence of ecological divergence in Central American populations. In Bat evolution, ecology, and conservation (pp. 315-339). Springer, New York, NY. · York, H. A., Rodríguez-Herrera, B., Laval, R. K., Timm, R. M., & Lindsay, K. E. (2019). Field key to the bats of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(6), 1726-1749. · Simmons NB, Cirranello AL (2020) Bat species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic database. https://batnames.org · Turcios-Casco, M. A., Ávila-Palma, H. D., LaVal, R. К., Stevens, R. D., Ordoñez-Trejo, E. J., Soler-Orellana, J. A., & Ordoñez-Mazier, D. I. (2020). A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 96, 411.IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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