Diclidurus Wied-Neuwied, 1820

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 13

Genus Diclidurus Wied-Neuwied, 1820

The genus Diclidurus currently includes four species that range from Mexico to Paraguay (Simmons, 2005; Simmons and Cirranello, 2020). Members of this genus are not easily captured because they are rapid fliers active above the canopy or in open areas over water, where they are hard to capture with standard mistnetting techniques (Kalko et al., 1996; Lim et al., 1999; Ochoa-G. et al., 2008). Accordingly, most knowledge of these bats has been gained through use of shotguns, aerial nets, acoustic monitoring, and/or searching for roosts.

Species of Diclidurus are characterized by distinctively whitish (sometimes entirely white) or very pale coloration. Hood and Gardner (2008) provided a key based on external and cranial characters, and López-Baucells et al. (2018) provided a key based on external characters alone (but see comments under D. isabella , below). During the 2012 CEBIO bat course, two acoustic forms of Diclidurus were detected (possibly D. albus and D. scutatus ) but only one species ( D. isabella ) has been positively identified from voucher material collected in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve.