Lasiurus cinereus

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Lasiurus; Lasiurus cinereus; British Columbia; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Northwest Territories; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6403636; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6403636

252. Northern Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus French: Lasiure cendré / German: Eisgraue Haarschwanzfledermaus / Spanish: Lasiuro cenizo Taxonomy. Vespertilio linereus [sic] Palisot de Beauvois, 1796, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. See L. egregius. Lasiurus cinereus is in the Hoary Bat group. Monotypic. Distribution. From Canada (S British Columbia, SE Northwest Territories, Hudson Bay, Quebec, and Newfoundland) S throughout the USA and Mexico to W Guatemala; also on Hawaii. Descriptive notes. Head-body ¢.80-5— 83- 6 mm, tail 47-61 mm, ear 13-19 mm, hindfoot 8-13 mm, forearm 50-57 mm; weight 20-35 g. Dorsum is generally mixed brown-gray, with heavy white tinge, and strongly frosted; wrist and shoulder patches are whitish; and throat is yellowish. Dorsal hairs are frosted and tricolored, with dark bases, yellowish middles, and blackish distal bands. Ventral fur is not heavily frosted. Hair on elbows, thumbs, and upper arm is yellowish; wing membrane has brownish ventral hair from body to nearly the wrist. Ears are short, thick, rounded, and yellowish, with blackish edges. Tragus is short and broad. Uropatagium is densely furred; calcar is twice as long as hindfoot, with lobes on tip. Skull is large and broad; rostrum is broad, with wide nasal openings; and auditory bullae are large. Teeth are large, and P?is present and reduced, sometimes absent. Dental formula is I 1/3, C1/1,P2/2,M 3/3 (x2) = 32. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 28 and FN = 48, with medium-sized submetacentric X-chromosome and small acrocentric Y-chromosome. Habitat. Temperate forests of pine-oak and lowlands of deciduous forests in dry and wet areas at elevations of 500-1900 m (Mexico). The Northern Hoary Bat has been caught in dense forests, open wooded clearings, and city parks. Food and Feeding. Northern Hoary Bats have fast and straight flight that can reach 21- 3 km /h;itis considered one of the fastest North American bats. During flight, they can soar and glide. They might form groups when hunting and forage above treetops, along streams and ...