A new species of Lonchophylla (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, with comments on L. bokermanni

Abstract

We examined Brazilian species of the nectar-feeding bats genus Lonchophylla (Phyllostomidae, Lonchophyllinae) to clarify the identity of Lonchophylla bokermanni and to determine the distribution of this and other species of Lonchophylla in eastern Brazil. As a result, we have found sufficient differences between Cerrado populations (including the type locality of L. bokermanni) and populations inhabiting the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil,which warrant the treatment of the Atlantic Forest populations as a separate and new species. We describe this new species here as Lonchophylla peracchii, sp. nov. The new species appears to be restricted to the Atlantic Forest, whereas L. bokermanni is found only in Cerrado habitats.

Checklist of Brazilian bats, with comments on original records

“…16 The distribution of Lonchophylla bokermanni is currently restricted to the state of Minas Gerais. Populations of the state of Rio de Janeiro (and probably Espírito Santo), previously referred to this taxon, correspond to a new species (L. peracchii; Dias et al [2013]). 17 Although the records of Carollia castanea for the Brazilian territory previous to the description of C. benkeithi (e.g., Uieda 1980;Nogueira et al 1999) have been attributed to the latter species (e.g., McLellan and Koopman 2008), until this material is formally revised we opted to maintain the first formal citation of C. benkeithi for Brazil (McLellan and Koopman 2008) as the reference record.…”

Expansion of the southern limit of Vampyrodes caraccioli Thomas, 1889 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) and first record for Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil

“…Gregorin and Ditchfield 2005, Miranda et al 2006, Nogueira et al 2012, Dias et al 2013, Feijó et al 2015, Moratelli and Dias 2015, and reports of new records for several regions (e.g. Zortéa et al 2013, Dias et al 2016, Basílio et al 2017, including the southern region of the country (e.g.…”

Range extension of Lonchophylla peracchii (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) to Northeastern Brazil

“…Thirteen species are currently recognized, five of them in Brazil Parlos et al 2014;Moratelli and Dias 2015). Lonchophylla mordax Thomas, 1903 occurs in the Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and ecotones of these two biomes in Northeastern Brazil (Moratelli and Dias 2015); L. dekeyseri Taddei, Vizotto & Sazima, 1983 occurs sparsely along the Caatinga and Cerrado of Midwestern and Northeastern Brazil, and Eastern Bolivia (Griffiths and Gardner 2008;Aguiar et al 2010;Leal et al 2013); L. bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978 is endemic to the Cerrado of Southeastern Brazil, with records for three localities in Minas Gerais Nascimento et al 2013;Teixeira et al 2014a); L. inexpectata Moratelli & Dias, 2015 occurs in the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil, with confirmed records from Pernambuco and Bahia (Moratelli and Dias 2015); and L. peracchii Dias, Esbérard & Moratelli, 2013 is currently restricted to Southeastern Brazil, with confirmed records from Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and São Paulo (Pimenta et al 2010;Nascimento et al 2013;Dias et al 2013;Teixeira et al 2013) (Figure 1; Table 1). …”

“…Lonchophylla peracchii was described from Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest samples previously assigned to either L. bokermanni or L. mordax (see Dias et al 2013). The species is currently restricted to the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil and occurs in lowland and mountainous evergreen and semideciduous forests (0-1000 m of elevation), pioneer formations, and islands near the continent (Pimenta et al 2010;Dias et al 2013;Teixeira et al 2013).…”