Western sucker-footed bat

The western sucker-footed bat, Myzopoda schliemanni, is a bat endemic to Madagascar and the second living species of the genus Myzopoda, a genus that is the only member of the family Myzopodidae, the only family of bats endemic to Madagascar. It is a separate species from the Madagascar sucker-footed bat of the eastern forests. Little is known about its habits, which are assumed to be similar to those of its eastern relative. It measures 92 to 107 millimetres in length and has large ears and prominent suckers on its feet and thumbs, with buff-brown upper parts and mouse-gray underparts. The species has been recorded at three lowland broad-leaf rainforest sites in north-western Madagascar, and it is also found in dry deciduous forests. It feeds extensively on Lepidoptera, as well as cockroaches, and to a much smaller extent on Hymenoptera and beetles.