Artibeus Leach, 1821

Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429), pp. 1-69 : 22

Artibeus Leach, 1821

The genus Artibeus currently includes 23 species grouped into two subgenera ( Artibeus and Dermanura ) ( Hoofer et al., 2008; Redondo et al., 2008; Solari et al., 2009; Cirranello et al., 2016). For decades there has been controversy regarding whether three genera ( Artibeus , Dermanura , and Koopmania ), two genera ( Artibeus and Dermanura ), or only one genus ( Artibeus ) should be recognized to group these species. Recently Cirranello et al. (2016) and Baker et al. (2016) advocate for the recognition of a single genus with two subgenera ( Artibeus and Dermanura ) as the most reasonable classification scheme for these taxa. Five Artibeus species were recorded at the three sampled localities.