Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429), pp. 1-69 : 22-23

Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 1 adult female ( MUSM 39125 ) ; Tingana: 4 adult females ( FMNH 203426 , 203600 , 203602 ; MUSM 39126 ), 6 adult males ( FMNH 203428 , 203430 , 203598 ; MUSM 39127–39129 ) ; Waqanki: 3 adult females ( FMNH 203424 ; MUSM 39123 , 39124 ), 4 adult males ( FMNH 203422 , 203594 , 203596 ; MUSM 39122 ) ; see table 10 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: We consulted descriptions and measurements of Artibeus lituratus provided by Goodwin and Greenhall (1961), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Davis (1984), Koepcke and Kraft (1984), Handley (1987), Brosset and Charles-Dom-

inique (1990), Marques-Aguiar (1994), Anderson (1997), Simmons and Voss (1998), Rui et al. (1999), and Marchan-Rivadeneira et al. (2012). Currently, two subspecies are recognized: A. l. lituratus (south of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, east through the Guianas and southward, east of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia into Paraguay and northern Argentina) and A. l. palmarum (southeastern Mexico south to northern and western Colombia, northern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and Lesser Antilles) ( Marques-Aguiar, 2008; Larsen et al., 2013). Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: large size (FA>63); brown dorsal and ventral pelage; ventral pelage without silver frosting; well-defined white facial stripes; dorsal surface of uropatagium furred; M1 with weakly developed hypocone; and M3 absent ( Marques-Aguiar, 2008; Larsen et al., 2013). Measurements of the Mayo River specimens fall within the ranges reported for the nominate subspecies.

REMARKS: One female (MUSM 39124) that we collected was lactating.