Promops centralis Thomas, 1915

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 : 148-149

Promops centralis Thomas, 1915

VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 2): Jenaro Herrera (MUSM 5604, 6974); see table 64 for measurements.

UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: Promops cf. centralis was recorded using acoustic methods during the CEBIO bat course at Jenaro Herrera in 2012.

IDENTIFICATION: Promops is a Neotropical genus of three currently recognized species that

can be distinguished from other molossids by the following combination of traits: ears short, rounded, and arising medially from the same point on the forehead; antitragus pendant and constricted at its base; tragus minute; lips smooth; snout with a median ridge extending from behind the nares to the level of the ears; palate highly domed; basisphenoid pits well developed; upper incisors curved, relatively slen- der, and less than half the height of the canines; two pairs of lower incisors; and lower incisors weakly bifid with the outer incisors crowded laterally behind the inner incisors (Eger, 2008). Size is said to differentiate Promops centralis from P. nasutus (e.g., Eger, 2008; López-Baucells et al., 2018), but there is considerable measurement overlap between these species (e.g., in forearm length and greatest length of skull; Gregorin and Taddei, 2000; Gregorin and Chiquito, 2010). Promops centralis can be more confidently distinguished from other congeners by its blackish- to chocolate-brown or dark reddish-brown bicolored dorsal pelage (with a whitish basal band that is 20% of the total length of the hairs) and slightly paler ventral pelage (Gregorin and Chiquito, 2010). Descriptions and measurements of Promops centralis were provided by Goodwin and Greenhall (1961, 1962), Carter and Dolan (1978), Ascorra et al. (1993), Simmons and Voss (1998), Barquez et al. (1999), Gregorin and Taddei (2000), Reid (2009), Lim and Engstrom (2001b), Gregorin and Chiquito (2010), and Giménez and Giannini (2016). No subspecies are currently recognized, but a revision of the spe- cies is needed (Eger, 2008; Gregorin and Chiquito, 2010).

Ascorra et al. (1993) identified the specimens from Jenaro Herrera as Promops centralis , but they mistakenly reported the catalog number of one specimen (MUSM 6974 as MUSM 6973). Their voucher material conforms to previous descriptions and measurements of the species.

REMARKS: No ecological information is available for this species in our region.