TABLE 2 in Unravelling cryptic species diversity in eastern Nearctic paper wasps, Polistes (Fuscopolistes), using male genitalia, morphometrics and DNA barcoding, with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

TABLE 2. Morphometric parameters: females of Polistes hirsuticornis sp. nov., P. parametricus sp. nov. and similar species. Explanations: Avg—arithmetic mean, Range—observed minimum and maximum values (ranges marked by an asterisk include measurements that were not part of the sample used for the statistical analyses), SD—standard deviation, n —number of measured specimens, THSD—Tukey's HSD (pairwise comparisons): species with identical letters have mean values that are not statistically different (p> 0.05), F—F statistic for ANOVA within each morphometric parameter. For each ANOVA, p value was <0.001 except for CW/CL (p = 0.294; no statistically significant differences).
Morphometric parameter—Ƥ SpeciesAvgRangeSD nTHSDFClypeal width / length metricus (CW/CL) bellicosus0.98 0.990.91-1.04 0.95-1.040.029 32 0.023 25fuscatus0.990.94-1.030.024 241.25parametricus0.990.94-1.03*0.025 25hirsuticornis1.010.96-1.060.025 25Clypeus-eye contact length / Antennal hirsuticornis socket vertical diameter parametricus (CEC/AS) bellicosus0.61 0.74 0.850.38-0.85 0.54-0.97 0.65-1.080.09 25 0.11 25 0.09 25a b c75.19metricus1.020.86-1.210.11 32dfuscatus0.990.76-1.23*0.11 25dFlagellomere 1 length / bellicosus Scape length fuscatus (FIL/SL) parametricus0.74 0.75 0.760.69-0.77 0.68-0.79* 0.71-0.830.021 25 0.019 25 0.024 25a b b15.30hirsuticornis0.770.74-0.790.014 25bcmetricus0.780.73-0.820.022 32cGenal width / metricus Eye width bellicosus (GW/EW) fuscatus0.73 0.76 0.780.48-0.85 0.67-0.90 0.67-0.92*0.067 32 0.055 25 0.060 25a ab bc56.14hirsuticornis0.810.69-0.900.054 25cparametricus0.990.80-1.210.095 25dPostocellar line / parametricus Ocellocular line metricus (POL/OOL) fuscatus0.47 0.49 0.510.38-0.58* 0.43-0.56 0.44-0.65*0.031 25 0.035 32 0.032 25a ab bc48.59bellicosus0.530.48-0.630.037 25chirsuticornis0.600.51-0.690.046 25dScape length / width parametricus (SL/SW) hirsuticornis3.28 3.283.15-3.43 2.94-3.640.08 25 0.15 25a abellicosus3.513.26-3.720.10 25b69.36fuscatus3.533.35-3.690.09 25bmetricus3.643.43-3.790.09 32cUpper interocular distance / metricus Head width fuscatus (UID/HW) bellicosus0.42 0.43 0.430.40-0.44 0.41-0.44 0.42-0.450.009 32 0.008 25 0.008 25a b b90.18parametricus0.440.42-0.470.012 25chirsuticornis0.460.45-0.480.009 25d
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