LaVal's Disk-winged Bat vs Red leucaena

Thyroptera lavali compared with Leucaena diversifolia

Key Differences

• LaVal's Disk-winged Bat is Data Deficient while Red leucaena is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	LaVal's Disk-winged Bat	Red leucaena
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Thyropteridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Thyroptera	Leucaena
Species	Thyroptera lavali	Leucaena diversifolia

Conservation Status

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Red leucaena

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	LaVal's Disk-winged Bat	Red leucaena
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Red leucaena

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (29 countries), Asia (6 countries), North America (13 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador