Mesophylla macconnelli (Thomas, 1901)

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 : 105

Mesophylla macconnelli (Thomas, 1901)

VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 54): Boca

Río Yaquerana (FMNH 89052), Jenaro Herrera

(AMNH 278480, 278494; CEBIOMAS 103, 104; MUSM 5498, 5545, 5935, 5936, 5941), Nuevo San Juan (AMNH 272725, 272745, 272824, 273035, 273049, 273076, 273077, 273162; MUSM 13206– 13209, 15185–15189), Orosa (AMNH 74100), Quebrada Betilia (MUSA 15183, 15184, 15188, 15201), Quebrada Lobo (MUSA 15107, 15109, 15115, 15121), Quebrada Sábalo (MUSA 15209), Quebrada Vainilla (LSUMZ 28441–28444), Río Blanco (MUSA 15090), Santa Cecilia (FMNH 87085–87096); see table 44 for measurements.

UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: None.

IDENTIFICATION: Mesophylla contains a single species that is widespread from southeastern Nicaragua to northern Bolivia and central Brazil (Arroyo-Cabrales, 2008a; Reid, 2009). The taxonomic status of this bat has been debated for most of the second half of the last century. Whereas some authors considered Mesophylla to