“…More recently, the ecological significance of bat vision, and its potential links to trait evolution, has become a major focus of attention (Danilovich & Yovel, 2019; Gutierrez, Castiglione, et al, 2018; Thiagavel et al., 2018), with the neotropical members of the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea (comprising five families and ~250 extant species) emerging as a model system for addressing how ecological opportunity relates to diversification (Dumont et al., 2012; Rojas, Warsi, & Dávalos, 2016). For ancestral noctilionoids, expansion into novel niches involved highly divergent echolocation and flight strategies linked to specialized insectivory (aerial feeding, gleaning and hovering) (Fenton et al., 1999; Gillam & Chaverri, 2012; Mancina, García‐Rivera, & Miller, 2012), while extant noctilionoids display remarkable ecological breadth, with diets ranging from fruit and nectar to arthropods, small vertebrates, and blood (Rojas, Ramos Pereira, Fonseca, & Dávalos, 2018; Rojas, Vale, Ferrero, & Navarro, 2011). Specifically, the Neotropical leaf‐nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) display the widest range of diets of all bat families, including the outstanding dietary novelty of the parallel evolution of diverse plant‐based diets encompassing nectar, pollen, soft fruit and figs (Rojas et al., 2011).…”