Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818) . In Eschwege, J. Brasilien, Neue Bibliothek. Reisenb., 15:224.

TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Asuncion .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Tamaulipas (Mexico) to S Brazil, N Argentina, and Bolivia; Trinidad and Tobago; S Lesser Antilles; Très Marfas Isis.

SYNONYMS: femurvillosum, intermedins, koopmani, palmarum, rusbyi, superciliosum.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Artibeus . Includes palmarum but not fallax, hercules, or praeceps (Koopman, 1978b:15). Includes intermedins; see Jones and Carter (1976:28; but see also Davis (1984). See also comment under planirostris .