Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii (Lesson and Garnot 1826)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 458

Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii (Lesson and Garnot 1826)

[Vespertilio] blossevillii Lesson and Garnot 1826 , Ferussac's Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., 8: 95.

Type Locality: Uruguay, Montevideo.

Vernacular Names: Red Bat; Western Red Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. blossevillii Lesson and Garnot 1826

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. brachyotis J. A. Allen 1882

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. frantzii Peters 1871

Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. teliotis H. Allen 1891

Distribution: Bolivia, N Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil to W North America (but not E North America); Trinidad and Tobago; Galapagos ( Ecuador).

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

Discussion: Subgenus Lasiurus , borealis species group. Included in borealis by Koopman (1993, 1994) but see Schmidly and Hendricks (1984), Baker et al. (1988 a), and Morales and Bickham (1995). Does not include degelidus ( Baker et al., 1988 a) but might include minor . Does not include pfeifferi ; see Morales and Bickham (1995). Includes brachyotis; see Niethammer (1964) and McCracken et al. (1997). Does not include varius ; see Barquez (1987), Barquez et al. (1993), and Mares et al. (1995). Does not include salinae , see Mares et al. (1995) and Tiranti and Torres (1998), but also see Barquez and Diaz (2001).