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ON THE SYSTEMATICS, DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF NEW WORLD 



FLOWER BATS 



Taxonomic Position 



All neotropic flower bats belong to the New World pliyllostomids (Phyllostomatidae): 

 Order Cliiroptera 



Suborder Microchiroptera 



Superfaniily Phyllostomatoidea 



Family Phyllostomatidae / (Phyllostomidae) 

 Subfamilies: 



Lonchophylliiiae 



Brachyphyllinae 



Phyllonycterinae 



Glossophaginae 



Phyllostommae 



Stenoderminae 



CaroUiinae 



Currently, the Phyllostomatidae are divided into seven subfamilies of which four 

 subfamilies contain 38 predominantly nectarivorous species in 15 genera: 

 Subfamily Lonchophyllinae Griffiths, 1982 

 Genus Lionycteris Thomas, 1913 



L. spiirrelli Tliomas, 1913 

 Genus Lonchophylla Tliomas, 1903 



L. thomasi Ahen, 1904 



L. dekeyseri Taddei, Vizotto & Sazima, 1983 



L. mordax Thomas, 1903 with subspecies 



L robust a Miller, 1912 



I. handleyi Hill, 1980 



L. bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978 

 L. hesperia Allen, 1908 

 Genus Plata Una Thomas, 1928 



P. genovensium Tliomas, 1928 



Subfamily Brachyphyllinae Gray, 1866 

 Genus Brachyphylla Gray, 1834 



B. nana MiUer, 1902 (= B. puinila Miller, 1918) 

 B. cavernanini ssp. Gray, 1834 with subspecies 



Subfamily Phyllonycterinae Miller, 1907 

 Genus Erophylla Miller, 1906 



E. sezekorni (Gundlach, 1861) with subspecies 



