Sturnira bidens Thomas, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16:310.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Napo, Baeza, Upper Coca River, 6,500 ft. (1,981 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, perhaps Amazonian Brazil.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Corvira . Formerly included in genus Corvira; see Gardner and O'Neill (1969) and Jones and Carter (1976:21). See Molinari and Soriano (1987, Mammalian Species, 276).