Abstract
Two new species of yellow-shouldered bats Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Central America and western South America are described using molecular and morphological data. The two new species, which occur in Costa Rica and Panama and in western Ecuador, were previously confused with S. ludovici, and S. lilium and S. luisi, respectively. Sturnira now includes 22 described species, making it the most speciose genus in the Neotropical family Phyllostomidae.
Highlights
The genus Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae) includes at least 23 monophyletic clades of frugivorous bats that are all endemic to the Neotropics
We examined 62 adult specimens of Sturnira representing 8 species of Sturnira: 3 specimens of S. bakeri, 8 of S. hondurensis, 3 of S. burtonlimi, 3 of S. ludovici, 8 of S. luisi, 7 of S. mordax, 11 of S. oporaphilum, and 19 of S. parvidens
The proximal portion of the forearm is well furred with short hair in S. burtonlimi, S. ludovici, and S. parvidens, whereas it is well furred with long hair in S. hondurensis, S. mordax, and S. oporaphilum, and sparsely furred with short hairs in S. luisi
Summary
The genus Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae) includes at least 23 monophyletic clades of frugivorous bats that are all endemic to the Neotropics. A molecular phylogeny of the genus (Velazco and Patterson 2013) uncovered three lineages that do not correspond to any of the species described to date–these were referenced as Sturnira new species 1, 2, and 3 (sensu Velazco and Patterson 2013). The first of these new taxa, S. new species 1, occurs in Costa Rica and Panama and belongs to a clade that includes S. hondurensis, S. ludovici, and S. oporaphilum. We describe two–S. new species 1 and 2–of the three new species uncovered by the analyses of Velazco and Patterson (2013)
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