Mimon bennettii (Gray, 1838)

Cláudio, Vinícius C., Barbosa, Gedimar P., Rocha, Vlamir J. & Rassy, Ricardo Moratelli Fabrício B., 2020, The bat fauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Carlos Botelho State Park, Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil, including new distribution records for the state of São Paulo, Zoologia (e 36514) 37, pp. 1-32 : 10

Mimon bennettii (Gray, 1838)

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Taxonomy. Mimon bennettii (Gray, 1838) is the only species of Mimon (Gray, 1847) registered in Brazil ( Hurtado and Pacheco 2014, Nogueira et al. 2014). The species most resembles Gardneryceteris crenulatum (É, Geoffroy, 1803) in the external morphology. The diagnosis of these species is based on the morphology of the noseleaf, which is smooth in M. bennettii and serrated in G. crenulatum , and the dorsal color, that is mid brown with lighter reddish venter and no dorsal stripe in M. bennettii , and dorsal fur dark brown with a single white stripe and yellowish brown ventral fur in G. crenulatum (see Ortega and Arita 1997, Nogueira et al. 2007b Hurtado and Pacheco 2014).The specimen from PECB (ZSP 041; see Table 5 for measurements) fits in the description of M.bennettii . The general coloration is reddish, and dorsal fur is bicolored, with mid brown basal band and reddish-brown distal band. The venter is weakly bicolored, with general reddish light brown coloration. The wings are attached along the tibia, the ears are pointed and well developed, and noseleaf is also well developed and smooth. The tail extends until the middle of the uropatagium.

Distribution. The species is recorded in all Brazilian biomes, except Pampas, occurring in the states of Amapá, Piauí, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina ( Tavares et al. 2008, Reis et al. 2017). The type locality of the species is Ipanema, in São Paulo, where the species is distributed on the central, eastern and southeastern regions, including areas of dense ombrophilous forests, seasonal semideciduos forests, Cerrado, and transition areas ( Garbino 2016).

Field observations. We captured one non-reproductive female in May, with a ground-level mist-net crossing a wide stream in sampling site M18 (Appendix 1).