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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| Est. World Population: | 150 |
| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Endangered |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This species is poorly known. It feeds on insects, mostly moths and beetles (Ochoa and Sanchez 1988, Eisenberg and Redford 1999). No more information is known of this species, but it is probably similar to Lonchorhina orinocensis or L. aurita. Dominant habitat includes gallery forest through natural savannah grasslands.
Range:
This species is restricted to a relatively small region to the extreme northwestern portion of Amazonian Venezuela, south of the Orinoco (Ochoa and Sanchez 1998). All collecting localities are along the confluence of the Orinoco and Meta rivers, but not extending to Colombia (so far).
Conservation:
Cave conservation should be enforced at the area within and around the distribution of this species, and both expansion of ranching and indiscriminate vampire control should cease. Only forest reserves occur nearby the collecting localities, no national protected areas.