Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863:83.

TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad .

DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca (Mexico) to SE Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador; Trinidad; perhaps New Providence Isl (Bahama Isis), see Jones and Carter (1976:10).

SYNONYMS: occidentalis .

COMMENTS: Includes occidentalis; see Jones and Carter (1976:10). See Lassieur and Wilson (1989, Mammalian Species, 347).