Lasiurus

For the genus of plants, see Lasiurus (plant).

Hairy-tailed bats
Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Tribe:	Lasiurini
Genus:	Lasiurus Gray, 1831
Type species
Vespertilio borealis (Müller, 1776)
Species
20, see text.

Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.^[1]

Phylogeny

The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.^[2]

	M. lucifugus (outgroup)
Lasiurini	Dasypterus D. xanthinus D. ega D. insularis D. intermedius Aeorestes A. egregius A. villosissimus A. semotus A. cinereus Lasiurus L. blossevillii L. frantzii L. borealis L. pfeifferi L. seminolus

Species

The following are the described species in Lasiurus:

• Lasiurus arequipae Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020^[3] — Arequipa cinnamon red bat
• Lasiurus atratus (Handley, 1996) — greater red bat
• Southern red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii)
• Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)
• Tacarcuna bat (Lasiurus castaneus)
• Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
• Jamaican red bat (Lasiurus degelidus
• Hairy-tailed bat (Lasiurus ebenus)
• Southern yellow bat (Lasiurus ega)
• Big red bat (Lasiurus egregius)
• Western red bat (Lasiurus frantzii)
• Lasiurus insularis (Lasiurus insularis)
• Northern yellow bat (Lasiurus intermedius)
• Minor red bat (Lasiurus minor)
• Pfeiffer's red bat (Lasiurus pfeifferi)
• Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus)
• Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus)
• Cinnamon red bat (Lasiurus varius)
• South American hoary bat (Lasiurus villosissimus)
• Western yellow bat (Lasiurus xanthinus)

References

1. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 2 October 2009
2. Baird, Amy B.; Braun, Janet K.; Engstrom, Mark D.; Holbert, Ashlyn C.; Huerta, Maritza G.; Lim, Burton K.; Mares, Michael A.; Patton, John C.; Bickham, John W. (2017). "Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0186085. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1286085B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186085. PMC 5636129. PMID 29020097.
3. Málaga, Brian A.; Díaz, Darwin R.; Arias, Sandra; Medina, César E. (2020-03-23). "Una especie nueva de Lasiurus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) del suroeste de Perú". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (in Spanish). 91. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3096. ISSN 2007-8706.