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{{Short description|Genus of bats}}
{{For|the genus of plants|Lasiurus (plant)}}
{{Italic title}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Hairy-tailed bats
| image = Lasiurus cinereus Portrait.jpg
| image_caption = [[Hoary bat]] (''Lasiurus cinereus'')
| taxon = Lasiurus
| authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1831
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 20, see text.
| type_species = ''[[Eastern Red Bat|Vespertilio borealis]]''
| type_species_authority = ([[Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller|Müller]], 1776)
}}
'''''Lasiurus''''' is a genus of [[Bat|bats]] in the family [[Vespertilionidae]]. Its members are known as '''hairy-tailed bats''' or '''red bats'''.<ref name="Simmons">{{citation
| last = Simmons
| first = Nancy B.
| contribution = Chiroptera
| pages = 312–529
| title=[[Mammal Species of the World]]: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed)
| editor-last = Wilson
| editor-first = Don E. 
| editor2-last = Reeder
| editor2-first = DeeAnn M.
| contribution-url = https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801886
| publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]
| place = Baltimore
| year=2005
| isbn = 978-0-8018-8221-0
| access-date = 2 October 2009}}</ref>

==Phylogeny==
The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within ''Lasiurus'', based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.<ref name="Baird 2017">{{cite journal|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0186085|pmid=29020097|pmc=5636129|title=Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=12|issue=10|article-number=e0186085|year=2017|last1=Baird|first1=Amy B.|last2=Braun|first2=Janet K.|last3=Engstrom|first3=Mark D.|last4=Holbert|first4=Ashlyn C.|last5=Huerta|first5=Maritza G.|last6=Lim|first6=Burton K.|last7=Mares|first7=Michael A.|last8=Patton|first8=John C.|last9=Bickham|first9=John W.|bibcode=2017PLoSO..1286085B|doi-access=free}}</ref>
{{clade
| 1 = ''[[Myotis lucifugus|M. lucifugus]]'' (outgroup)
| label2=Lasiurini
| 2 = {{clade
| label1=''[[Dasypterus]]''
| 1 = {{clade
  | 1 = ''[[Western yellow bat|D. xanthinus]]''
  | 2 = {{clade
    | 1 = ''[[Southern yellow bat|D. ega]]''
    | 2 = {{clade 
      | 1 = ''[[Cuban yellow bat|D. insularis]]''
      | 2 = ''[[Northern yellow bat|D. intermedius]]''}} }} }}
| 2 = {{clade
   | label1 = ''[[Aeorestes]]''
   | label2 = '''''Lasiurus'''''
   | 1 = {{clade
     | 1 = ''[[Big red bat|A. egregius]]''
     | 2 = {{clade
       | 1 = ''[[Aeorestes villosissimus|A. villosissimus]]''
       | 2 = {{clade
         | 1 = ''[[Hawaiian hoary bat|A. semotus]]''
         | 2 = ''[[Hoary bat|A. cinereus]]'' }} }} }}
   | 2 = {{clade
      | 1 = {{clade 
        | 1 = ''[[Southern red bat|L. blossevillii]]''
        | 2 = ''[[Lasiurus frantzii|L. frantzii]]''}}
      | 2 = {{clade 
        | 1 = ''[[Eastern red bat|L. borealis]]''
        | 2 = {{clade
          | 1 = ''[[Pfeiffer's red bat|L. pfeifferi]]''
          | 2 = ''[[Seminole bat|L. seminolus]]''

}} }} }} }} }} }}

==Species==
The following are the described species in ''Lasiurus'':
* ''[[Lasiurus arequipae]]'' {{Small|Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Málaga|first1=Brian A.|last2=Díaz|first2=Darwin R.|last3=Arias|first3=Sandra|last4=Medina|first4=César E.|date=2020-03-23|title=Una especie nueva de Lasiurus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) del suroeste de Perú|url=http://www.revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/3096|journal=Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad|language=es|volume=91|doi=10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3096|issn=2007-8706|doi-access=free}}</ref> &mdash; Arequipa cinnamon red bat
* ''[[Lasiurus atratus]]'' <small>(Handley, 1996)</small> &mdash; greater red bat
* [[Southern red bat]] (''Lasiurus blossevillii'')
* [[Eastern Red Bat]] (''Lasiurus borealis'')
* [[Tacarcuna bat]] (''Lasiurus castaneus'')
* [[Hoary bat]] (''Lasiurus cinereus'')
* [[Jamaican red bat]] (''Lasiurus degelidus''
* [[Hairy-tailed bat]] (''Lasiurus ebenus'')
* [[Southern yellow bat]] (''Lasiurus ega'')
* [[Big red bat]] (''Lasiurus egregius'')
* [[Western red bat]] (''Lasiurus frantzii'')
* [[Lasiurus insularis]] (''Lasiurus insularis'')
* [[Northern yellow bat]] (''Lasiurus intermedius'')
* [[Minor red bat]] (''Lasiurus minor'')
* [[Pfeiffer's red bat]] (''Lasiurus pfeifferi'')
* [[Seminole bat]] (''Lasiurus seminolus'')
* [[Hawaiian hoary bat]] (''Lasiurus semotus'')
* [[Cinnamon red bat]] (''Lasiurus varius'')
* [[South American hoary bat]] (''Lasiurus villosissimus'')
* [[Western yellow bat]] (''Lasiurus xanthinus'')

==References==
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