About the Authors

Jagan Nath Adhikari

Contributed equally to this work with: Jagan Nath Adhikari, Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Zoology, Birendra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal

Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai

Contributed equally to this work with: Jagan Nath Adhikari, Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai

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

bpbhattarai@cdztu.edu.np, bhattaraibp@gmail.com

Affiliation Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Maan Bahadur Rokaya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic, Department of Biodiversity Research, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Tej Bahadur Thapa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.