Cyttarops alecto Thomas, 1913

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 12-13

Cyttarops alecto Thomas, 1913

VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 1): Quebrada Sábalo (MUSA 15288); see table 1 for measurements.

UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: See Remarks.

IDENTIFICATION: Cyttarops is a monotypic genus that is easily distinguished from other emballonurids by its long, silky, smoky-gray to blackish pelage; a uropatagium bearing neither specialized sacs nor glands; a long, narrow postorbital process that is not fused to the supraorbital ridge; and by the absence of a gap between the two upper premolars (Jones and Hood, 1993; Hood and Gardner, 2008; López-Baucells et al., 2018). Descriptions and measurements of C. alecto were provided by Starrett and Casebeer (1968), Jones and Hood (1993), Hood and Gardner (2008), Velazco et al. (2011), Tavares et al. (2012), and Ludeña and Medina (2017). No subspecies are currently recognized (Hood and Gardner, 2008).

Medina et al. (2015) erroneously reported the adult male specimen from Quebrada Sábalo as Centronycteris maximiliani based on external characters. Subsequent study of craniodental morphology and re-examination of the skin resulted in the correct identification (Ludeña and Medina, 2017).

REMARKS: The Quebrada Sábalo specimen was captured in a mistnet suspended 22 m above ground (Medina et al., 2015). Several individuals of a small grayish bat that D.W.F. and his Matses companions flushed from the fronds of a Mauritia flexuosa palm in a palm swamp (aguajal) at Nuevo San Juan in 1999 may have belonged to this species.