false vampire bats
megadermatidae latin

Unlike other false vampire bats, the yellow-winged bat feeds only on insects and not small vertebrates.

Large Lesser False Vampire bats are found in the Talevadi caves.

Lesser False Vampire Bats live in rock crevices, caves, foliage and hollow trees, depending on availability.

The False Vampire Bats (Megaderma) are a subfamliy of bats.

Family Megadermatidae: false vampire bats (Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia)

Megadermatidae, or False Vampire Bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia.

In any case, it has been observed that in captivity, Greater False Vampire Bats can successfully detect and catch mice and frogs in complete darkness without echolocating.

Megaderma is a genus of bat in the Megadermatidae family.

These three species compose the "true" vampire bats, as opposed to the "false" vampires of the family Megadermatidae and the spectral bat.

Family Megadermatidae (False vampires)

Family Megadermatidae: false vampire bats (Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia)

Confusingly, they are not related to the Old World family of large carnivorous bats to be found in the Megadermatidae that are also called false vampires.

The Yangochiroptera is a proposed suborder of Chiroptera that includes most of the microbat families, except the Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae and the Megadermatidae.

The new suborder Yinpterochiroptera includes the Pteropodidae or megabat family, as well as the Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, Megadermatidae, and Rhinopomatidae families The new suborder Yangochiroptera includes all the remaining families of bats (all of which use laryngeal echolocation).

However, carnivory in bats (capturing other vertebrates excluding fish) has been found in one species of Nycteridae, four species of Megadermatidae, five species of Phyllostomidae, one species of Vespertilionidae and one species of Hipposideridae which adds to less than 1% of all bat species.