Thyroptera discifera (Lichtenstein and Peters, 1855) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1855:335.

TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela, Carabobo, Puerto Cabello .

DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua; Panama and Colombia to Guianas, Amazonian Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

SYNONYMS: abdita, major .

COMMENTS: See Wilson (1978, Mammalian Species, 104).