Artibeus (Artibeus) concolor Peters, 1865

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 90

Artibeus (Artibeus) concolor Peters, 1865

VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 6): Jenaro Herrera (MUSM 1321, 5513, 5514, 6967, 6968; 6970); see table 38 for measurements.

UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: None.

IDENTIFICATION: Artibeus concolor is a widespread Amazonian species (Ascorra et al., 1993; Marques-Aguiar, 2008a). It can be distinguished from other congeners by the following combination of characteristics: medium size (forearm 43–52 mm, greatest length of skull 20.6–22.5 mm), gray-brown to brownish tricolored dorsal fur, shoulders and venter paler than dorsum, lack of facial stripes, plagiopatagium attached to leg at the base of the toes, paraoccipital processes weakly developed or absent, M1 with weakly developed hypocone, and upper and lower third molars present (Acosta and Owen, 1993; Simmons and Voss, 1998; Marques-Aguiar, 2008a; López-Baucells et al., 2018). Descriptions and measurements of A. concolor were provided by Husson (1962, 1978), Gardner (1976), Carter and Dolan (1978), Genoways and Williams (1979), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Handley (1987), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), Acosta and Owen (1993), Simmons and Voss (1998), and Lim et al. (2005). No subspecies are currently recognized (Marques-Aguiar, 2008a).

Ascorra et al. (1993) correctly identified their specimens from Jenaro Herrera, which conform to previous qualitative and morphometric descriptions of Artibeus concolor .

REMARKS: No ecological information is available for Artibeus concolor in our region.