First record of Promops centralis Thomas, 1915 (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Fe province, Argentina

María Eugenia Montani,Andrés Alberto Pautasso,María Mónica Díaz

doi:10.15560/16.5.1133

Abstract

We present the first record of Promops centralis Thomas, 1915 for Santa Fe province, Argentina. This species was previously known in Argentina only from Formosa province. This new record adds a second province to the distribution of this species in Argentina and a new ecoregion, the Espinal. Furthermore, this record extends the distribution area of P. centralis by almost 610 km to the south and increase to 24 the number of bats species in Santa Fe province.

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Santa Fe, a province that extends over a plain area of more than 132,000 km2, is located in the central-eastern part of Argentina, and includes five ecoregions: Humid Chaco, Dry Chaco, Espinal, Pampa, and Delta and Islands of the Paraná (Burkart et al 1999; Biasatti et al 2016)
We present the first record of Promops centralis Thomas, 1915 for Santa Fe province, Argentina
This new record adds a second province to the distribution of this species in Argentina and a new ecoregion, the Espinal

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Santa Fe, a province that extends over a plain area of more than 132,000 km, is located in the central-eastern part of Argentina, and includes five ecoregions: Humid Chaco, Dry Chaco, Espinal, Pampa, and Delta and Islands of the Paraná (Burkart et al 1999; Biasatti et al 2016). Promops Gervais, 1856 is a Neotropical genus that currently includes three species of mastiff bats: Promops centralis Thomas, 1915, P. nasutus (Spix, 1823), and P. davisoni Thomas, 1921 (Gregorin and Chiquito 2010); the first two are distributed in Argentina. Promops nasutus has a wide distribution, but it is restricted to South America and islands of Trinidad and Tobago, with several records in northern and central Argentina, the southern distributional limit of the species. Promops centralis is distributed in the Neotropical region, occurring from Mexico to Costa Rica, and from

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