Yucatan yellow bat [SEP] parent taxon
Yucatan yellow bat
The Yucatan yellow bat ("Rhogeessa aeneus") is a species of bat found in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and possibly also in Belize and Guatemala. These small insectivorous bats forage on flying insects (most likely mosquitoes) at dawn and dusk.
A small population of these bats has been observed on Spanish Lookout Caye, Belize, since at least 1998. They are on both the east and west sides of the mangrove caye, which is located east of Belize City in the Drowned Cayes
chose "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to systematic mammalogy."
It is one of the seven species recognized in the black-winged little yellow bat species complex, the others being:
- Yucatan yellow bat, "R. aenus"
- Husson's yellow bat, "R. hussoni"
- Little yellow bat, "R. parvula"
- Thomas's yellow bat, "R. io"
- Tiny yellow bat, "R. minutilla"
- Black-winged little yellow bat, "R.