Lonchophylla

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• Brazilian Nectar Bat Lonchophylla mordax

  

  Its back is cinnamon-brown and its underside paler. This Brazilian bat feeds mainly on nectar and is recorded in a limited region where the semiarid Caatinga meets the Atlantic Forest.

• Orange Nectar Bat Lonchophylla robusta

  

  The orange nectar bat is a medium-sized bat with an elongated muzzle and orange-brown back. It feeds on nectar and pollen in moist evergreen forests.

• Bokermann's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla bokermanni

  Bokermann's Nectar Bat is a medium-sized nectar-feeding bat. After a taxonomic review, its known records are limited to three localities in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.

• Chocoan Nectar Bat Lonchophylla chocoana

  This bat was recorded in the Chocó region of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Specimens in the original paper came from more than one setting where forest remained.

• Goldman's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla concava

  This nectar-feeding bat is recorded in Central and South America. A study in Colombia recorded it while surveying humid premontane forest fragments in the middle Cauca River basin.

• Pacific Forest Long-tongued Bat Lonchophylla fornicata

  The Pacific Forest Long-tongued Bat occurs on the Pacific lowlands of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its original description notes short brown dorsal fur and specimens collected in rainforest.

• Handley's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla handleyi

  Handley's Nectar Bat is a South American bat with an elongated muzzle. A forest study in Peru reported Cecropia seeds in fecal samples as evidence of fruit consumption.

• Western Nectar Bat Lonchophylla hesperia

  This nectar bat is known from scattered localities in Peru and Ecuador. Its back is pale brown and its underside grayish brown.

• Pale-bellied Nectar Bat Lonchophylla inexpectata

  A small bat studied in northeastern Brazil's Caatinga scrub and seasonal dry forest. Pollen and insect fragments were also reported from a small sample.

• Orces's Long-tongued Bat Lonchophylla orcesi

  Orces's Long-tongued Bat was described from Ecuador's Chocó region. At the time of the original description, the only known specimen was a female caught in very humid premontane forest at Los Pambiles.

• Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat Lonchophylla orienticollina

  This bat is recorded on the eastern side of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela. The study describes two-toned hairs around the neck and abdomen, with paler bases and darker tips.

• Orange Nectar Bat Lonchophylla robusta

  The orange nectar bat is a medium-sized bat with an elongated muzzle and orange-brown back. It feeds on nectar and pollen in moist evergreen forests.

• Brazilian Nectar Bat Lonchophylla mordax

  Its back is cinnamon-brown and its underside paler. This Brazilian bat feeds mainly on nectar and is recorded in a limited region where the semiarid Caatinga meets the Atlantic Forest.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.