Tharaka Kusuminda,^1,* Amani Mannakkara,¹ Kanishka D. B. Ukuwela,² Sergei V. Kruskop,³ Chamara J. Amarasinghe,⁴ Uttam Saikia,⁵ Parvathy Venugopal,⁶ Mathisha Karunarathna,⁷ Rajika Gamage,⁸ Manuel Ruedi,^9,10 Gábor Csorba,¹¹ Wipula B. Yapa,¹² Bruce D. Patterson<sup>13

1</sup>Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka
²Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lanka
³Zoological Museum of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ul. Bol'shata Nikitskaya, 2, Moscow 125009, Russia
⁴B-1, Pahala Deraniyagala, Deraniyagala, Sri Lanka
⁵Zoological Survey of India, North Eastern Regional Centre, Risa Colony, Shillong 793003, Meghalaya, India
⁶Bat Conservation Trust, London, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG, UK
⁷Sandaraja Wana Arana, Dothalu-Oya, Dolosbage, Sri Lanka
⁸Tea Research Institute, Talawakele, Sri Lanka
⁹Department of Vertebrates, Natural History Museum of Geneva, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Geneva, Switzerland
¹⁰Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
¹¹Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross utca 13, Budapest, H-1088, Hungary
¹²Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
¹³Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA

^*Corresponding author: E-mail: t.kusuminda@gmail.com