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Table 4 Difference in wing shapes among 12 blow fly species analysed with canonical variate analysis (CVA)

From: Wing morphometrics as a tool in species identification of forensically important blow flies of Thailand

Species

CM

CC

CP

CN

CR

CV

LC

LPA

LPO

LS

HL

HP

CM

–

0.0493***

0.0227***

0.0404***

0.0237***

0.0442***

0.0730***

0.0561***

0.0681***

0.0366***

0.0871***

0.0755***

CC

9.8564***

–

0.0362***

0.0403***

0.0654***

0.0329***

0.0510***

0.0400***

0.0417***

0.0457***

0.0595***

0.0536**

CP

4.9507***

9.2418***

–

0.0359***

0.0380***

0.0313***

0.0619***

0.0451***

0.0522***

0.0305***

0.0734***

0.0648**

CN

11.4708***

10.7335***

10.4253***

–

0.0503***

0.0441***

0.0660***

0.0560***

0.0613***

0.0469***

0.0808***

0.0747**

CR

5.9621***

10.9845***

7.1383***

11.4291***

–

0.0578***

0.0858***

0.0700***

0.0820***

0.0451***

0.0994***

0.0874***

CV

7.8729***

8.4819***

6.3717***

8.5035***

7.4158***

–

0.0574***

0.0447***

0.0563***

0.0490***

0.0674***

0.0539***

LC

13.5404***

12.4207***

12.7527***

15.8552***

15.1926***

14.7910***

–

0.0259***

0.0339***

0.0520***

0.0319***

0.0347**

LPA

12.1571***

12.7886***

10.8236***

15.3404***

14.0886***

13.7671***

8.3257***

–

0.0284**

0.0340**

0.0397***

0.0369*

LPO

12.8250***

11.5912***

10.8626***

14.3585***

14.7295***

13.4374***

8.5241***

5.6018***

–

0.0444***

0.0344***

0.0451**

LS

11.0842***

13.9298***

10.2695***

15.3045***

12.4569***

13.7332***

10.5660***

5.5405***

8.3450***

–

0.0655***

0.0598**

HL

13.7576***

13.1727***

12.2678***

15.9458***

15.1906***

14.7735***

7.6458***

7.0393***

5.5794***

9.8839***

–

0.0276**

HP

12.6284***

13.3789***

11.9967**

16.3182***

14.4229***

14.6569***

8.2272**

6.2182**

7.5083**

8.2701**

6.0139***

–

  1. Mahalanobis distances (bold) and Procrustes distances (narrow)
  2. P-values of all 12 species indicate highly significant differences denoted with asterisks (permutation 10,000 rounds in Morpho J: ***P < 0.0001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05).  Abbreviations: CC, Ch. chani; CM, Ch. megacephala; CN, Ch. nigripes; CP, Ch. pinguis; CR, Ch. rufifacies; CV, Ch. villeneuvi; LC, L. cuprina; LPA, L. papuensis; LPO, L. porphyrina; LS, L. sinensis; HL, He. ligurriens; HP, He. pulchra