LaVal's Disk-winged Bat vs Chilipuca Colorada

Thyroptera lavali compared with Phaseolus lunatus

Key Differences

• LaVal's Disk-winged Bat is Data Deficient while Chilipuca Colorada is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	LaVal's Disk-winged Bat	Chilipuca Colorada
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (planta)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Thyropteridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Thyroptera	Phaseolus
Species	Thyroptera lavali	Phaseolus lunatus

Conservation Status

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Chilipuca Colorada

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	LaVal's Disk-winged Bat	Chilipuca Colorada
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.

Chilipuca Colorada

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and montane grasslands and shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (20 countries), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), Europe (Spain), North America (5 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (7 countries), and South America (5 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela