Lasiurus cinereus
(A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)
Northern Hoary Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
| Family | : Vespertilionidae |
| Subfamily | : Vespertilioninae |
| Tribe | : Lasiurini |
| Genus | : Lasiurus |
| Subgenus | : Aeorestes |
Species status
Authority citation
Palisot de Beauvois, A. M. F. J. 1796. Catalogue raisonné du museum, de Mr. C. W. Peale, membre de la société philosophique de Pensylvanie. Philadelphie: De l'Imprimerie de Parent, xiv + 42 pp. [Incomplete; only the first fascicle was published.]
Original name as described
Vespertilio cinereus
Type locality
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic · Neotropic · Oceania (Biorealm)
Country distribution
Canada · United States · Mexico · Guatemala
Subregion distribution
USA(AL,AZ,AR,CA,CO,CT,DE,DC,FL,GA,ID,IL,IN,IA,KS,KY,LA,ME,MD,MA,MI,MN,MS,MO,MT,NE,NV,NH,NJ,NM,NY,NC,ND,OH,OK,OR,PA,RI,SC,SD,TN,TX,UT,VT,VA,WA,WV,WI,WY,HI)
Taxonomy notes
previously included L. semotus and L. villosissimus; has been moved from Lasiurus to Aeorestes (previously a synonym of Myotis) by some authors, but this has been a controversial taxonomic opinion within the bat systematics community and the species is retained under Lasiurus here following a recent taxonomic decision published between the MDD and Batnames Database
Taxonomy notes citation
Baird, A. B., Braun, J. K., Mares, M. A., Morales, J. C., Patton, J. C., Tran, C. Q., & Bickham, J. W. (2015). Molecular systematic revision of tree bats (Lasiurini): doubling the native mammals of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(6), 1255-1274. · Novaes, R. L. M., Garbino, G. S., Claudio, V. C., & Moratelli, R. (2018). Separation of monophyletic groups into distinct genera should consider phenotypic discontinuities: the case of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zootaxa, 4379(3), 439-440. · Baird, A. B., Braun, J., Engstrom, M., Lim, B., Mares, M., Patton, J., & Bickham, J. (2021). On the utility of taxonomy to reflect biodiversity: the example of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Therya, 12(2), 283. · Soto-Centeno, J. A., & Simmons, N. B. (2022). Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats. Scientific reports, 12(1), 21877. · Francis, C. M., Simmons, N. B., Van Cakenberghe, V., Upham, N. S., & Burgin, C. J. (2023). On the taxonomy of Lasiurus. Zenodo, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7696845IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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