New records of bats for the state of Piauí, northeastern Brazil (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

Abstract

We provide four news records of bats—Micronycteris hirsuta (Peters, 1869), Dermanura gnoma (Handley, 1987), Myotis riparius Handley, 1960, and Myotis lavali Moratelli, Peracchi, Dias and Oliveira, 2011 to the Piauí State, northestern Brazil. We also provide measurements and taxonomic comments about the species recorded. With these new records, 59 bat species are now recognized for the Piauí.

First record of Myotis riparius Handley, 1960 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Sergipe, northeastern Brazil

“…The capture of the individual in the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural do Caju, in an area associated with bodies of water, corroborates that reported by other studies, as this species is usually found in humid forested areas, forag-ing in environments close to water sources (e.g. Dias and Peracchi 2007, Wilson 2008, Lourenço et al 2010, Maas et al 2013, Tavares et al 2017. The record of this species in areas of restinga has also been described in southern and southeastern Brazil by Luz et al (2009) and Bôlla et al (2017).…”

“…Distribution map of the known localities for Myotis riparius in northeastern Brazil. 1: Bacabeira, Maranhão (02°57' S, 044°24' W;Dias et al 2009); 2: Barreirinhas, Maranhão (03°0' S, 043°6' W; DosSantos et al 2013); 3: Serra das Almas, Ceará (05°05' S, 040°50' W); 4: Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí (07°41'49" S, 045°08'14" W;Maas et al 2013)…”

History of the genus Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Brazil: phylogeny, distribution, and cytogenetics

“…found records of the species in the Atlantic Rainforest domains of the Brazilian Northeast, also reporting occurrence in a part of the ing to the state of Tocantins, which composes a diagonal corridor. Maas et al (2013) recorded the occurrence of the species in the State of Piauí reinforcing the idea that it may present wider distributions within the Cerrado and Caatinga domains ( Figure 2D).…”

“…Myotis riparius is distributed in the States of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo (Dias & Peracchi, 2007;Moratelli et al, 2011a;Peracchi et al, 2011;Maas et al, 2013;Miranda et al, 2013). It is the second most representative species in the genus in terms of distribution levels, devido à sua grande plasticidade adaptativa .…”

Preferential areas for allopatria based on Piauí relief (Brazil): an inferential study

“…Estudos desenvolvidos na região apontam para registros de espécies não registradas ainda para região, como o caso da aranha Heterophrynus longicornis, já citada também para a região do Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões, cujo habitat foi associado a matas de galerias da região de Uruçuí (Carvalho et al 2011) e o novo registro de morcegos que citaram quatro novas espécies para região próxima (Maas et al, 2013).…”