Use of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae) leaves as day roost by the Dwarf Little Fruit Bat Rhinophylla pumilio (Phyllostomidae) in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Guilherme S. T. Garbino; Vitor Q. Piacentini; Rogerio Vieira Rossi; Thiago B. F. Semedo

doi:10.31687/saremNMS.20.0.15

Autores/as

Guilherme S. T. Garbino Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Campus Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Vitor Q. Piacentini Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
Rogerio Vieira Rossi Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
Thiago B. F. Semedo Programa de Capacitação Institucional, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa do Pantanal (INPP), Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31687/saremNMS.20.0.15

Resumen

We describe a group of Dwarf Little Fruit bats (Rhinophylla pumilio) using the Buriti palm (Mauritia flexuosa) as day roost in a Cerrado area in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. With ten individuals roosting under a dry Buriti palm leaf, we estimate that the group was composed of five females and their young. This is the first record of R. pumilio using leaves of M. flexuosa, and the third publication reporting the use of leaves of this palm as shelter by Phyllostomidae fruit bats.

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