The long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus sobrinus) is a species of megabat.
It is nectarivorous, feeding on nectar from primarily banana flowers.
Andersen described it as a subspecies of the long-tongued nectar bat, with the trinomen Macroglossus minimus sobrinus.
Andersen noted that it differed from the long-tongued nectar bat in several ways.
[4] The long-tongued fruit bat feeds on nectar almost exclusively from banana flowers.