TABLE 3 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 3. Morphometric parameters: males 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 = 0.051; no statistically significant differences).
Morphometric parameter—3SpeciesAvgRangeSDnTHSDFClypeal width / lengthparametricus0.980.92-1.04*0.02822(CW/CL)bellicosus0.990.94-1.070.03325metricus1.020.93-1.10*0.036252.44fuscatus1.020.93-1.120.04625hirsuticornis1.030.99-1.110.03324Flagellomere 1 length /hirsuticornis0.890.83-0.940.02924aScape length (FIL/SL)bellicosus parametricus0.92 0.940.87-0.96 0.89-0.990.022 0.02625 22b bc44.21fuscatus0.960.90-1.020.02925cmetricus0.990.93-1.060.03225dFlagellomere 10 width /parametricus0.780.71-0.820.02721aFlagellomere 1 width (FXW/FIW)hirsuticornis metricus0.79 0.810.75-0.83 0.73-0.93*0.021 0.03524 25a ab12.66bellicosus0.880.82-0.940.03325bfuscatus0.910.85-0.970.03525bGenal width /hirsuticornis0.800.70-0.880.04323aEye width (GW/EW)fuscatus bellicosus0.83 0.830.75-0.96 0.72-1.010.054 0.07825 25ab ab3.87parametricus0.870.75-1.03*0.07022bmetricus0.870.75-0.970.06325bPostocellar line /parametricus0.480.39-0.610.04822aOcellocular line (POL/OOL)metricus bellicosus0.51 0.540.44-0.66* 0.40-0.630.044 0.05625 25ab ab22.42fuscatus0.540.44-0.68*0.05625bhirsuticornis0.610.55-0.710.03924cScape length / widthhirsuticornis3.072.92-3.250.0824a(SL/SW)parametricus3.203.00-3.560.1222bfuscatus3.333.02-3.530.1125c52.04bellicosus3.423.11-3.610.1225dmetricus3.453.17-3.76*0.1125d
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