Western nectar bat

The western nectar bat (Lonchophylla hesperia) is a small leaf-nosed bat of the genus Lonchophylla that is found in Ecuador and Peru. Glover Morrill Allen described it in 1908, and the name hesperia comes from the Greek hesperos, meaning western, because the species has only been recorded west of the Andes Mountains. It weighs about 10 grams and is one of the smaller members of the tribe Lonchophyllini, with pale brown fur on its back, a lighter grayish brown belly and a skull between 24.8 and 28 millimetres long. It is restricted to areas without rainforest, from arid desert to savanna and dry forest. As of 2011 it was known from only 19 individuals at nine locations, six of which were captured in 1908, which makes it a rarely recorded bat.