First record of Promops nasutus (Spix, 1823) (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from Colombia
María PaQui,
Javier Muñoz-Garay,
Hugo Mantilla-Meluk,
Francisco Sánchez
Affiliations
María PaQui
Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Transversal 4 #42-00. Edificio Rafael Arboleda, piso 8. Bogotá, Colombia
Javier Muñoz-Garay
Licenciatura en Biología, Universidad Francisco José de Caldas, Carrera 4 No. 26B - 54 Piso 4, Bogotá, Colombia
Hugo Mantilla-Meluk
Programa de Biología, Universidad del Quindío, Carrera 15, Calle 12 N Armenia, Quindío, Colombia.
Francisco Sánchez
Programa de Biología, Universidad de Los Llanos, sede Barcelona km 12 vía Puerto López, Villavicencio, Colombia.
Specimens of the genus Promops (Chiroptera, Molossidae) are rare in Colombian scientific collections. Only one species, P. centralis, has been documented from the country. We report the first record of P.nasutus for Colombia, collected on the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes. External and cranial measurements, as well as morphological features in our specimen match those of P. nasutus. Our record of P. nasutus also represents a geographic extension in the distribution of the species of more than 755 km west from the closest known location in the Venezuelan Amazon.
