Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers 1818)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Phyllostomidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 395-426 : 419

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scientific name	Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers 1818)
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[Phyllostomus] lituratus Olfers 1818 , in: Eschwege, J. Brasilien, Neue Bibliothek. Reisenb., Vol. 15: 224.

Type Locality: Paraguay, Asunción.

Vernacular Names: Great Fruit-eating Bat.

Synonyms: Artibeus (Artibeus) dominicanus Andersen 1908 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus subsp. lituratus Olfers 1818

Subspecies Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus subsp. koopmani Wilson 1991

Subspecies Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus subsp. palmarum J. A. Allen 1897

Distribution: Michoacan, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas ( Mexico) south to S Brazil, N Argentina, and Bolivia; Trinidad and Tobago; S Lesser Antilles; Trés Marías Isls.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as A. lituratus and A. intermedius .

Discussion: Subgenus Artibeus . Includes palmarum but not fallax, hercules, or praeceps ( Koopman, 1968, 1978 b), Handley (1987), and Marques-Aguiar (1994). Includes intermedius ; see Jones and Carter (1976) and Marques-Aguiar (1994), but see also Davis (1984) and Wilson (1991). It is not appropriate to treat intermedius as a subspecies of lituratus because it supposedly co-occurs with other populations of lituratus (referred to palmarum, which has priority) at several Central American localities ( Davis, 1984). Because there are no characters that unambiguously separate palmarum and intermedius ( Davis, 1984; Marques-Aguiar, 1994; Rodrigo Medellin, pers. comm.), it seems most likely that intermedius simply represents individuals of palmarum that fall at the lower end of the normal range of size variation. Accordingly, I treat intermedius as a junior synonym of A. lituratus palmarum . Phylogeography discussed by Phillips et al. (1991) and Ditchfield (2000).