Thyroptera

• Peter's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera discifera

  

  This small bat roosts in groups under leaves and uses suction cups on its feet and thumbs to cling to them.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• De Vivo's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera devivoi

  This bat is recorded in forest patches within northern South American savannas. In a 2020 observation, a group of 15 used the underside of a dead palm leaf for at least four days.

• LaVal's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera lavali

  LaVal's disk-winged bat is a small bat with adhesive discs on its wrists and ankles. It has been recorded in South American lowland forest, including roosts in palm leaves.

• Patricia's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera wynneae

  This small disk-winged bat was recorded in two areas of northeastern Peru and southeastern Brazil. The 2014 description was based on three adult males; no female was known in that account.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• Peter's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera discifera

  This small bat roosts in groups under leaves and uses suction cups on its feet and thumbs to cling to them.