Peters's disk-winged bat

Peters's disk-winged bat (Thyroptera discifera) is a small brownish bat of the family Thyropteridae that lives in the Neotropics, from southern Nicaragua in Central America to the Guianas and Peru in northern South America. Its head and body measure about 34 to 52 millimetres, with a tail of a further 24 to 33 millimetres, and it weighs roughly 3 to 5 grams. Like the other members of its genus it carries circular suction cups on short stalks on the soles of its feet and at the base of the thumb claw, which it uses to hang upright on smooth surfaces such as the rolled leaves of banana and heliconia plants where groups roost. It lives mainly in lowland rainforest, sometimes also in gardens and plantations that were once forest, and it feeds on insects. Its fluttering flight suggests it is suited to catching insects among dense vegetation. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.