Lasiurus Gray 1831
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Lasiurus

description: Lasiurus Gray 1831
Lasiurus Gray 1831, Zool. Misc., Vol. 1: 38.
Type Species: Vespertilio borealis Müller 1776
Synonyms: Atalapha Peters 1871.
Species and subspecies: 17 species with 14 subspecies in 2 subgenera:
Subgenus Lasiurus (Lasiurus) Gray 1831
Subgenus Lasiurus (Dasypterus) H. Allen 1894
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) atratus Handley 1996
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii (Lesson and Garnot 1826)
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. blossevillii Lesson and Garnot 1826
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. brachyotis J. A. Allen 1882
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. frantzii Peters 1871
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) blossevillii subsp. teliotis H. Allen 1891
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) borealis (Müller 1776)
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) castaneus Handley 1960
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois 1796)
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. cinereus Palisot de Beauvois 1796
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. semotus H. Allen 1890
Subspecies Lasiurus (Lasiurus) cinereus subsp. villosissimus E. Geoffroy 1806
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) degelidus Miller 1931
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) ebenus Fazzolari-Corrêa 1994
Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega Gervais 1856
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. ega Gervais 1856
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. argentinus Thomas 1901
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. caudatus Tomes 1857
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. fuscatus Thomas 1901
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) ega subsp. panamensis Thomas 1901
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) egregius Peters 1870
Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) insularis Hall and Jones 1961
Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius H. Allen 1862
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius subsp. intermedius H. Allen 1862
Subspecies Lasiurus (Dasypterus) intermedius subsp. floridanus Miller 1902
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) minor Miller 1931
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) pfeifferi Gundlach 1861
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) salinae Thomas 1902
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) seminolus Rhoads 1895
Species Lasiurus (Lasiurus) varius Poeppig 1835
Species Lasiurus (Dasypterus) xanthinus Thomas 1897
Discussion: Treated under the name Nycteris by Hall (1981). In Opinion 111 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1929 b), Lasiurus was adopted rather than Nycteris. Atalapha was used for this genus until the early 20th century, when application of the name to bats now included in Lasiurus was shown to date from Peters, not Rafinesque (Hall and Jones, 1961). Includes Dasypterus; see Hall and Jones (1961). Two subgenera are recognized, Lasiurus and Dasypterus. Keys to the genus were presented by Hall and Jones (1961) and Shump and Shump (1982 a); see also Handley (1996). Species groups in the subgenus Lasiurus generally follow results of Morales and Bickham (1995).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, pp. 451-529 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 458, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519