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:

References

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Category:Bat genera

Category:Vesper bats

Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray