Toltec fruit-eating bat

The Toltec fruit-eating bat, Dermanura tolteca, is a small bat in the family Phyllostomidae, the New World leaf-nosed bats. It is sometimes also called the lowland fruit eating bat. Three subspecies are recognized: the nominate Dermanura tolteca toltecus, hesperus and ravus. An adult usually weighs under 16 grams, and the nominate subspecies is the largest of the three. Its fur runs from light brown in the northern parts of its range to blackish in Costa Rica, then paler again in northern South America, with darker animals typically living in wetter regions and lighter ones in drier habitats. The subspecies ravus differs in having white ear edges and clearer stripes below the eye. The nominate form ranges along the eastern and western coasts of Mexico from Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa south through Central America, and lives at mid altitudes in mountain ranges, while hesperus occurs in the Caribbean and ravus lives at lower elevations in Colombia and northwest Ecuador. The species is frugivorous and feeds mostly on the fruits of Cecropia and on figs. It roosts in caves and under banana leaves, and it is one of the bats that build tents by cutting the base of an Anthurium leaf so that it folds into a pyramid over the midrib. The IUCN classes it as Least Concern.