''Hipposideros felix'' is a species of bat known from Miocene fossil deposits at

Li Mae Long The Mae Long Formation in the Li Basin (also referred to as Li Mae Long) is a fossil site in Lamphun Province, Thailand. The fossils found are thought to date to the late Early Miocene, about 18 million years ago, corresponding to the European zo ...

in Thailand. The holotype is a tooth, the third molar, of a hipposiderid bat with affinities to the ''

Brachipposideros ''Brachipposideros'' is an extinct genus of leaf-nosed bats known from Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia and the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France. The fossils date to the late Oligocene to early Miocene. The species ''Brachip ...

'' group of fossil species found in Australia and France. The first description was published in a study of mammal specimens at the fossil site that produced evidence of unknown species, including other bats. The species is only known from the Li Mae Long, a site that was determined to be a forest near an open body of water in the Miocene. The authors,

Léonard Ginsburg Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' ...

and

Pierre Mein Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

, proposed the specific epithet ''felix'', derived from Latin, as a reference to the regions cultural perception of a bat as a symbol of happiness and good fortune.

References

Hipposideridae Mammals described in 1997 Bats of Asia Mammals of Thailand {{Hipposideridae-stub Fossil taxa described in 1997