Bats are usually classified into two main groups : Microchiroptera ( the most numerous, and commonly found throughout the world ), and Megachiroptera ( fruit bats, found in Asia, Africa and Australasia ).
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In contrast, Van Valen ( 1979 ) argued that these fossil forms are representatives of Eochiroptera, a primitive grade ancestral to both Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera; modern researchers, however, consider this clade to be obsolete.
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Although horseshoe bats have traditionally been included in the suborder Microchiroptera ( " microbats " ), genetic evidence suggests they and a few other microbat families are more closely related to Pteropodidae, the only family of " megabats " ( Megachiroptera ).
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Like all the other bats within the suborder Megachiroptera, M . pusillus does not rely on echolocation to hunt down insects . it was originally hypothesized that M . pusillus primarily fed on nectar and fruits, but there is now images of M . pusillus feeding on moths.
