Lonchophyllinae Griffiths, 1982

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 : 49

Subfamily Lonchophyllinae Griffiths, 1982

Twenty species in five genera ( Hsunycteris , Lionycteris , Lonchophylla , Platalina , Xeronycteris ) are currently recognized in this subfamily (Parlos et al., 2014; Moratelli and Dias, 2015; Baker et al., 2016; Cirranello et al., 2016; Simmons and Cirranello, 2020). Lonchophyllines are small to medium-sized bats (with forearms measuring 30–60 mm) characterized by a long muzzle; a wide, teardrop-shaped noseleaf; a long, extensible tongue with a deep longitudinal groove along each lateral surface; an elongated skull with incomplete zygomatic arches; large upper incisors with the inner pair usually more than twice the size of the outer teeth; and lower incisors with spatulate, trifid tips (Griffiths and Gardner, 2008b; Cirranello et al., 2016). At least four lonchophyllines occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve; three of these are species of Hsunycteris vouchered by collected specimens, and the fourth is Lionycteris spurrelli , which is vouchered by a photograph. No other lonchophyllines have geographic ranges that overlap or adjoin our region.