Lonchophylla concava

Lonchophylla concava is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in Central and South America. It was described as a new species in 1914 by Edward Alphonso Goldman from a specimen he collected in eastern Panama in 1912. In 1966 it was treated as a synonym of Goldman's nectar bat, and it stayed there until a 2005 publication argued that the two differ enough in physical form to be separate species. It is small, with a forearm of 32.0 to 34.6 millimetres and a weight of 7 to 9 grams. It feeds on nectar and pollen, notably from Mucuna and banana plants, and also takes some butterflies and moths. It roosts in caves by day and occurs from Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia and Ecuador, from sea level to about 1,000 metres.