''Lasiurus'' is a genus of

bats Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...

in the family

Vespertilionidae Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ...

. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.

Phylogeny

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

Species

The following are the described species in ''Lasiurus'': * ''

Lasiurus arequipae ''Lasiurus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats. Phylogeny The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within ''Lasiurus'', based on an analysis ...

'' — Arequipa cinnamon red bat * ''

Lasiurus atratus ''Lasiurus atratus'', the greater red bat, is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Guyana, Venezuela, French Guiana and Suriname Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as p ...

'' (Handley, 1996) — greater red bat * Southern red bat (''Lasiurus blossevillii'') *

Eastern Red Bat The eastern red bat (''Lasiurus borealis'') is a species of microbat in the family Vespertilionidae. Eastern red bats are widespread across eastern North America, with additional records in Bermuda. Taxonomy and etymology It was described in 1 ...

(''Lasiurus borealis'') *

Tacarcuna bat The Tacarcuna bat (''Lasiurus castaneus'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama and possibly Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular re ...

(''Lasiurus castaneus'') *

Hoary bat The hoary bat (''Lasiurus cinereus'') is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It lives throughout most of North America (and possibly also in Hawaii, although this is disputed). Taxonomy The hoary bat was described as ...

(''Lasiurus cinereus'') *

Jamaican red bat The Jamaican red bat (''Lasiurus degelidus'') is a species of vesper bat. It is endemic to Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of ...

(''Lasiurus degelidus'' *

Hairy-tailed bat The hairy-tailed bat (''Lasiurus ebenus''), is a bat species originally known only from its type locality, Ilha do Cardoso State Park in Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. ...

(''Lasiurus ebenus'') *

Southern yellow bat The southern yellow bat (''Lasiurus ega'') is a species of vesper bat that belongs to suborder microchiroptera (microbat) in the family Vespertilionidae. It is native to South, North and Central America, from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas in t ...

(''Lasiurus ega'') * Big red bat (''Lasiurus egregius'') *

Western red bat The western red bat or desert red bat (''Lasiurus frantzii'') is a species of microbat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in western North America and Central America. Taxonomy Previously, it was believed to be a subspecies of the ...

(''Lasiurus frantzii'') *

Lasiurus insularis The Cuban yellow bat (''Lasiurus insularis'') is a species of bat from the family Vespertilioninae. It was previously included as a subspecies of the northern yellow bat, a species that has a similar ecology and biology. The species is endemic t ...

(''Lasiurus insularis'') * Northern yellow bat (''Lasiurus intermedius'') *

Minor red bat The minor red bat (''Lasiurus minor'') is a species of bat from the family Vespertilioninae. It is found in the Bahamas, Hispaniola (both the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, though there are only six known individ ...

(''Lasiurus minor'') *

Pfeiffer's red bat Pfeiffer's red bat (''Lasiurus pfeifferi'') is a species of bat from the family Vespertilioninae and is endemic to Cuba. It is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List due to a significant population decline, caused by human population densi ...

(''Lasiurus pfeifferi'') *

Seminole bat The Seminole bat (''Lasiurus seminolus'') is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. Taxonomy The Seminole bat was first described in 1895 by Samuel N. Rhoads. The holotype had been collected in Tarpon Springs, Florida in 1892 by Wi ...

(''Lasiurus seminolus'') *

Hawaiian hoary bat The Hawaiian hoary bat (''Lasiurus semotus''), also known as ''ōpeapea'', is a species of bat Endemism, endemic to the islands of Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii. The Hawaiian hoary bat occupies the major Hawaiian islands, making it the only extant and ...

(''Lasiurus semotus'') *

Cinnamon red bat The cinnamon red bat (''Lasiurus varius'') is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It was first described from a specimen that had been collected in Chile. For more than one hundred years after its initial description, it was largely ...

(''Lasiurus varius'') *

South American hoary bat The South American hoary bat (''Lasiurus villosissimus'') is a species of vesper bat found in South America. Taxonomy Prior to 2015, the South American hoary bat was recognized as a subspecies of the hoary bat, ''A. cinereus.'' Range The South ...

(''Lasiurus villosissimus'') *

Western yellow bat The western yellow bat (''Lasiurus xanthinus'') is a species of vesper bat found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. This species roosts in trees such as ''Populus fremontii'', ''Platanus wrightii'', and ''Quercus arizonica''. If ava ...

(''Lasiurus xanthinus'')

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q116317 Bat genera Vesper bats Taxa named by John Edward Gray