Poso horseshoe bat
The Poso horseshoe bat or belligerent horseshoe bat is an endangered species of horseshoe bat found only on Sulawesi Island, which is part of Indonesia.
Taxonomy and etymology
The single known specimen was described in 1988 by British bat specialist John Edwards Hill and identified as the arcuate horseshoe bat. Hill wrote that the bat was most similar to the subspecies Rhinolophus arcuatus proconsulis, which is otherwise known only from Borneo.A 2013 review of the R. arcuatus group identified the Sulawesi specimen as representing a new species, which they named Rhinolophus belligerator. The new species name belligerator is from the Latin word belligerans, meaning "belligerent combatant".
This unusual species name for a bat was suggested because "the specimen originates in an area where a long-running and senseless Muslim–Christian civil war has been going on for many years".