| Autor: |
Feijó A; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP: 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.; Email: andekson@gmail.com., Da Rocha PA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP: 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Ecologia, 49100-000 São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil; Email: unknown., Althoff SL; Laboratório de Biologia Animal, Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Naturais, Fundação Universidade Regional de Blumenau, CEP 89010-971, Blumenau, SC, Brazil; Email: unknown. |
| Abstrakt: |
Histiotus are vespertilionid bats endemic to South America, easily recognized by its very long ears. During a twelve-month bat inventory in northeastern Brazil, eleven specimens of Histiotus were collected with a unique combination of characters that did not match those of any known species. In this paper, we describe these specimens as a new species. Histiotus sp. nov is distinguished from its congeners by its pale transparent wings and translucent ears, a triangular-shaped ear with a prominent lobe in the inner border connected by a band (~4 mm) across the forehead; its general golden-brownish body color and well-marked bicolor dorsal hairs. Its geographic distribution is unique among vespertilionids, arranged in a northeast-southwest diagonal across South America, includes the Caatinga and Cerrado of Brazil and Chaco of Bolivia. The available data suggest a seasonal reproductive pattern, with births occurring in the mid to late rainy season. |
