Lasiurus semotus

Familia: Vespertilionidae
Subfamilia: Vespertilioninae
Tribus: Lasiurini
Genus: Lasiurus
Subgenus: Lasiurus (Aeorestes)
Species:

Lasiurus semotus (H. Allen, 1890)

• Lectotype: USNM 15631, adult ♀, body in alcohol with skull not removed, collected by Valdemar Knudsen, collection date unknown, catalogued on 4 January 1887. [designated by Lyon & Osgood (1909: 276)]
• Type locality: “Sandwich Islands [=Hawaiian Islands]”.

• Atalapha semota H. Allen, 1890: 173 [original combination]
• Lasiurus semotus: Thomas, 1902: 238 [subsequent combination]
• Lasiurus (Lasiurus) semotus: Trouessart, 1904: 87 [subsequent combination]
• Lasiurus cinereus semotus: Hall & Jones, 1961: 95 [subsequent combination]
• Aeorestes semotus: Baird et al., 2015: 1267 [subsequent combination]

• United States: Hawaiian Islands: Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai.

• Allen, H. 1890. Description of a new species of bat, Atalapha semota. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 13: 173–175. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyon, M.W., Jr. & Osgood, W.H. 1909. Catalogue of the Type-Specimens of Mammals in the United States National Museum, Including the Biological Survey Collection. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 62: 1–325. BHL Reference page. 
• Trouessart, E.-L. 1904. Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium. Quinquenniale supplementum. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn. BHL Reference page. 
• Hall, E.R. & Jones, Jr., J.K. 1961. North American Yellow Bats, “Dasypterus”, and a List of the Named Kinds of the Genus Lasiurus Gray. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 14(5): 73–98. BHL Reference page. 
• Baird, A.B., Braun, J.K., Mares, M.A., Morales, J.C., Patton, J.C., Tran, C.Q. & Bickham, J.W. 2015. Molecular systematic revision of tree bats (Lasiurini): doubling the native mammals of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Mammalogy 96(6): 1255–1274. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv135 Reference page. 

• Russell, A.L., Pinzari, C.A., Vonhof, M.J., Olival, K.J. & Bonaccorso, F.J. 2015. Two tickets to paradise: multiple dispersal events in the founding of hoary bat populations in Hawai'i. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127912. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127912 Reference page. 
• Ziegler, A.C., Howarth, F.G. & Simmons, N.B. 2016. A second endemic land mammal for the Hawaiian Islands: a new genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates 3854: 1–52. hdl: 2246/6641 Reference page. 
• Baird, A.B., Braun, J.K., Engstrom, M.D., Holbert, A.C., Huerta, M.G., Lim, B.K., Mares, M.A., Patton, J.C. & Bickham, J.W. 2017. Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera). PloS ONE 12(10): e0186085. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186085 Reference page. 
• Pinzari, C.A., Kang, L., Michalak, P., Jerminn, L.S., Price, D.K. & Bonaccorso, F.J. 2020. Analysis of Genomic Sequence Data Reveals the Origin and Evolutionary Separation of Hawaiian Hoary Bat Populations. Genome Biology and Evolution 12(9): 1504–1514. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa137 Reference page.