lasiurus
{{Short description|Genus of bats}}
{{For|the genus of plants|Lasiurus (plant)}}
{{Italic title}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Hairy-tailed bats
| image = Lasiurus cinereus Portrait.jpg
| image_caption = Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
| taxon = Lasiurus
| authority = Gray, 1831
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 20, see text.
| type_species = Vespertilio borealis
| type_species_authority = (Müller, 1776)
}}
Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.{{citation
| last = Simmons
| first = Nancy B.
| contribution = Chiroptera
| pages = 312–529
| title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed)
| editor-last = Wilson
| editor-first = Don E.
| editor2-last = Reeder
| editor2-first = DeeAnn M.
| contribution-url = https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801886
| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press
| place = Baltimore
| year=2005
| isbn = 978-0-8018-8221-0
| access-date = 2 October 2009}}
Phylogeny
The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.{{cite journal|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0186085|pmid=29020097|pmc=5636129|title=Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=12|issue=10|pages=e0186085|year=2017|last1=Baird|first1=Amy B.|last2=Braun|first2=Janet K.|last3=Engstrom|first3=Mark D.|last4=Holbert|first4=Ashlyn C.|last5=Huerta|first5=Maritza G.|last6=Lim|first6=Burton K.|last7=Mares|first7=Michael A.|last8=Patton|first8=John C.|last9=Bickham|first9=John W.|bibcode=2017PLoSO..1286085B|doi-access=free}}
{{clade
| 1 = M. lucifugus (outgroup)
| label2=Lasiurini
| 2 = {{clade
| label1=Dasypterus
| 1 = {{clade
| 1 = D. xanthinus
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = D. ega
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = D. insularis
| 2 = D. intermedius}} }} }}
| 2 = {{clade
| label1 = Aeorestes
| label2 = Lasiurus
| 1 = {{clade
| 1 = A. egregius
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = A. villosissimus
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = A. semotus
| 2 = A. cinereus }} }} }}
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = {{clade
| 1 = L. blossevillii
| 2 = L. frantzii}}
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = L. borealis
| 2 = {{clade
| 1 = L. pfeifferi
| 2 = L. seminolus
}} }} }} }} }} }}
Species
The following are the described species in Lasiurus:
- Lasiurus arequipae {{Small|Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020}}{{Cite journal|last1=Málaga|first1=Brian A.|last2=Díaz|first2=Darwin R.|last3=Arias|first3=Sandra|last4=Medina|first4=César E.|date=2020-03-23|title=Una especie nueva de Lasiurus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) del suroeste de Perú|url=http://www.revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/3096|journal=Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad|language=es|volume=91|doi=10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3096|issn=2007-8706|doi-access=free}} — 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
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