Sturnira luisi Davis, 1980 . Occas. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech Univ., 70:1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Costa Rica, Alajuela, 11 mi. (18 km) NE Naranjo, Cariblanco, 3,000 ft. (914 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Costa Rica to Ecuador and NW Peru.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sturnira . The presence of this species in Colombia has not been verified; previously confused with Sturnira ludovici (Tamsitt, in Honacki et al., 1982).