Fig. 1

The map of terrestrial zoogeographic and regions of the Old-World tropic, modified from Holt et al. (2013). Dashed lines indicate figurative borders between zoogeographic regions which we used for Rhinolophoidea superfamily analysis (Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae and Rhinonycteridae). Bold lines indicate Wallaces Line, Huxleys Line and Lydekkers Line