About the Authors

Cecilia Wangari Wambui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cecilia.wambui@africamuseum.be (CWW); jmadinga@yahoo.fr (JM)

Affiliations Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa,Tervuren, Belgium, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven

Joule Madinga

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cecilia.wambui@africamuseum.be (CWW); jmadinga@yahoo.fr (JM)

Affiliation Institute National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, DR Congo

Mercy Gloria Ashepet

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa,Tervuren, Belgium, Department of Earth Science, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, Division of Bioeconomics, Department of earth and environment science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Maxson Kenneth Anyolitho

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Human Development and Relational Sciences, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Public Health, Lira University, Lira, Uganda, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Patrick Mitashi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DR Congo

Tine Huyse

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa,Tervuren, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.