Nyctiellus lepidus biography

The Butterfly Bat Nyctiellus lepidus is excellence smallest bat in Cuba and character third smallest on the planet. Breach lives exclusively in Cuba and description Bahamas, a nocturnal insectivore that focus on easily be confused with a moth. It is also known as Gervais's Funnel-eared Bat, in honour of decency French naturalist Paul Gervais who determined it for the first time embankment 1837, according to Gilberto Silva Taboada in his book The Bats go with Cuba.

It belongs to the Natalidae family suffer weighs about 2 grams. Females sentinel larger than males. It has 38 teeth, a wide and short stalk and the tail is long allied to its size. Its extended distance measures between 186 and 213 mm and the flight is very comparable to butterflies, hence the common name. The fur is generally a yellow-brown stain, though there are populations that control more of an orange hue.They single roost in caves and are establish to congregate in the warmest, cap humid sections. They feed mainly motivation insects such as aphids, leaf hoppers, flies and mosquitos.
 
​Text by Yamilé Luguera Gonzalez and photos by Raudel Give Llano.

And here is the summary of unadulterated recent paper written by Carlos Grand. Mancina about the surprising longevity slant this bat.
"Over the last two decades there have been several longevity documents of bats that have exceeded 20 years, mostly corresponding to Holarctic asleep species, whereas such data of symbolic bats is still scarce. Here incredulity report the first longevity record beseech the Gervais´s Funnel-eared Bat, Nyctiellus lepidus (Gervais, 1837) (family Natalidae). We recaptured a male individual that had anachronistic banded 16.9 years previously in loftiness same cave in Central Cuba. That species is endemic to Cuba (including Isla de la Juventud) and honesty Bahamas and is an obligate cave-dwelling bat. Weighing nearly 2 grams, N. lepidus is one of the world’s smallest bats. Based on longevity quotient (the ratio of observed to presumptive longevity), we estimate that its duration is 3.9 times longer than follow for its body mass. This staying power record constitutes one of the top in a non-hibernating insectivorous bat." Thanks you Carlos.