Artibeus (Koopmania) concolor Peters 1865

Artibeus (Koopmania) concolor Peters 1865, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 357.

Type Locality: Surinam, Paramaribo.

Vernacular Names: Brown Fruit-eating Bat.

Distribution: Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, N Brazil, Peru.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Koopmania . A revised diagnosis was presented by Owen (1991), who placed this species in its own genus ( Koopmania), which is here considered a subgenus of Artibeus based on phylogenetic results of Marques-Aguiar (1994), Van Den Bussche et al. (1998), Baker et al. (2000), and Wetterer et al. (2000). See Acosta and Owen (1993).