Artibeus (Artibeus) obscurus (Schinz, 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 : 23

Artibeus (Artibeus) obscurus (Schinz, 1821)

VOUCHER MATERIAL: Tingana: 2 adult females ( FMNH 203604 ; MUSM 39130 ), 4 adult males ( FMNH 203432 ; MUSM 39131–39133 ) ; see table 10 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: We consulted descriptions and measurements of Artibeus obscurus (under the name A. fuliginosus in earlier publications) provided by Koepcke and Kraft (1984), Handley (1987), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), Lim and Wilson (1993), Marques-Aguiar (1994), Simmons and Voss (1998), Haynes and Lee (2004), and Lim et al. (2005). No subspecies are currently recognized in A. obscurus ( Marques-Aguiar, 2008) . Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: medium size (FA 55–69 mm); dorsal pelage blackish and long (8–10 mm); facial stripes pale or obsolete; M3 variably present ( Haynes and Lee, 2004; Marques- Aguiar, 2008). Measurements of our specimens fall within the ranges reported for the species.