Lasiurus

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]

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