Dryadonycteris capixaba

Dryadonycteris capixaba is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in South America and the only species in the genus Dryadonycteris. It is sometimes known as the Capixaba nectar-feeding bat. It was described as a new species in 2012, partly from museum specimens that had been identified as the lesser long-tongued bat, and the holotype was collected in 2011 in Linhares, Brazil. It belongs to the subfamily Glossophaginae. The genus name comes from the name Dryades that Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius gave to the Atlantic Forest, and the species name is a Tupi word meaning a native of the state of Espirito Santo. It is a small member of its subfamily, with a forearm of 29 to 32 millimetres, a triangular nose-leaf and a short tail of about 6.5 millimetres. It is nectarivorous, and so far it is known only from Brazil, at elevations of 60 and 750 metres.