Lonchophylla orienticollina

Lonchophylla orienticollina is a species of bat found in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador along the eastern Andes. It was described as a new species in 2008 by Dávalos and Corthals from a holotype collected in 1988 near San Juan de Arama in Colombia. The species name comes from the Latin oriens, meaning eastern, and collis, meaning hill, and refers to its distribution along the eastern Andes. It is a medium-sized member of its genus, weighing 11 to 16 grams with a forearm length of 40 to 47 millimetres. The fur on its back ranges from intense orange to brown and the belly fur is tawny olive. It looks extremely similar to the orange nectar bat and Handley's nectar bat, which live in the same areas. It has been recorded from 75 to 2,013 metres above sea level, in old-growth forest and in fragmented forest. As of 2019 the IUCN evaluated it as Data Deficient because its ecological requirements are not yet known.