Hipposideros lankadiva Kelaart, 1850

Kharkongor, Ilona Jacinta, Saikia, Uttam, Khynriam, Dimos & Saikia, Bhaskar, 2023, Current status of faunal diversity of Siju Cave, South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (3), pp. 283-303 : 288

3. Hipposideros lankadiva Kelaart, 1850

1850. Hipposideros lankadiva Kelaart, J. Ceylon Brch. R. Asiat. Soc., 2:216.

Material examined: 2 ♂, cave entrance, Siju cave ,

21.03.2018, U. Saikia & party V /M/ERS/463, 464; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, cave entrance, Siju cave , 19.03.2019, U. Saikia & party, V /M/ERS/557, 561

Remarks: A comparatively common bat in Siju cave and roost in the cave year-round. However, they are mostly restricted up to about 300 m inside the Cave where they roost in the high ceilings wherever available. From the evening emergence count on 19 th March 2019, their population was estimated to be around 150 individuals. However, this number is nowhere near the “incredible numbers” of Hipposideros bats reported during the 1922 survey and in the early nineties ( Kemp and Chopra, 1924; Sinha, 1999).