Lasiurus ebenus Fazzolari-Corrêa, 1994

Cláudio, Vinícius C., Barbosa, Gedimar P., Rocha, Vlamir J. & Rassy, Ricardo Moratelli Fabrício B., 2020, The bat fauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Carlos Botelho State Park, Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil, including new distribution records for the state of São Paulo, Zoologia (e 36514) 37, pp. 1-32 : 24

Lasiurus ebenus Fazzolari-Corrêa, 1994

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Taxonomy. According to Nogueira et al. (2014), seven species of Lasiurus Gray, 1831 are recognized to Brazil: L. blossevillii ([Lesson, 1826]), L. castaneus Handley, 1960 , L. cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796) , L. ebenus Fazzolari-Corrêa, 1994 , L. ega (Gervais, 1856) , L. egregius (Peters, 1870) , and L. salinae Thomas, 1902 . However, Baird et al. (2015) consider L. salinae as a subspecies of L. blossevillii . Lasiurus ebenus can be distinguished from all congeners based on the black membranes and fur coloration. The other species present lighter colors, with fur coloration varying from reddish to yellowish, orange or whitish ( Fazzolari-Corrêa 1994, Bianconi and Pedro 2007, Reid 2009). The specimen from PECB (MN 83982; see Table 10 for measurements) have tricolored dorsal fur, with black basis and tips; bicolored ventral fur, with dark-brown basis and black tips; and black membranes and face. The interfemoral membrane is furred until half of its length, the ventral region of the humera and forearms are also furred.

Distribution. Our specimen represents the second record of. L. ebenus since its description (see Cláudio et al. 2018). The species was previously known only from its type locality, the Ilha do Cardoso State Park, also in São Paulo state ( Fazzolari-Corrêa 1994), which is about 100 km away from PECB.

Field observations. The adult male was captured in February in a ground-level mist-net set over a small stream in sampling site M20 (Appendix 1).