New records of bats (Chiroptera) from Santa Cruz province (Argentina) and the southernmost record of Lasiurus varius (Poeppig, 1835) for Argentina

By

Díaz, M. Mónica
Valenzuela, Alejandro
Sturzenbaum, Silvina
Barquez, Rubén M. (Rubén Marcos), 1950-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-9-11

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

397--401

Subjects

Patagonia , Santa Cruz , Vespertilionidae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.397

 

Abstract

Here, we report new records for the distribution in Argentina of 3 bat species from the family Vespertilionidae: Lasiurus varius (Poeppig, 1835), Histiotus magellanicus (Philippi, 1866), and Myotis chiloensis (Waterhouse, 1838). The range of L. varius is extended by more than 800 km south of the previous known limit, representing the southernmost known occurrence for the species in Argentina. The new information for M. chiloensis fills a previous existing gap between records known from Chubut and Tierra del Fuego. Similarly, the new record of H. magellanicus also completes its known distribution in the Santa Cruz province.