Vampyrodes major

Vampyrodes major, the great stripe-faced bat, is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae, placed in the subfamily Stenodermatinae, the tribe Stenodermatini and the genus Vampyrodes. G. M. Allen described it in 1908 in his paper Notes on Chiroptera in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, from a holotype in that museum (MCZ Mamm 6756) taken at San Pablo on the Isthmus of Panama, in the Canal Zone. For many years it was treated as a subspecies, Vampyrodes caraccioli major; the Mammal Diversity Database records it as split from V. caraccioli and cites the 2011 systematic revision of the genus by P. M. Velazco and N. B. Simmons in American Museum Novitates. The database describes its distribution as running from Oaxaca in Mexico to Colombia, across the Nearctic and Neotropic realms, and lists Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama, with El Salvador given a question mark. It is recorded as living, found in the wild, and rated Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.