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Table 7 Percentage of correctly classified specimens in each species and between sexes of each blow fly species performed using a permutation test with 10,000 rounds in MorphoJ

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

Species

% correctly classified between species (No. of correctly classified/Total no. of specimens)

% correctly classified between sexes (No. of correctly classified/Total no. of specimens)

Males

Females

Ch. megacephala***

96.2 (51/53)

91.7 (22/24)

96.6 (28/29)

Ch. chani***

97.5 (39/40)

100 (17/17)

100 (23/23)

Ch. pinguis

94.9 (37/39)

65.5 (19/29)

50 (5/10)

Ch. nigripes

87.5 (28/32)

35.3 (6/17)

53.3 (8/15)

Ch. rufifacies***

97.9 (46/47)

84 (21/25)

86.4 (19/22)

Ch. villeneuvi**

100 (39/39)

95.7 (22/23)

100 (16/16)

L. cuprina

79.3 (23/29)

53.3 (8/15)

64.3 (9/14)

L. papuensis

78.1 (25/32)

44.4 (4/9)

69.6 (16/23)

L. porphyrina

94.4 (17/18)

54.5 (6/11)

42.9 (3/7)

L. sinensis

62.5 (5/8)

75 (3/4)

25 (1/4)

He. ligurriens

75 (24/32)

64.3 (9/14)

38.9 (7/18)

He. pulchra

0 (0/3)

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  1. Statistically significant differences between males and females based on Mahalanobis distances are denoted with asterisks (permutation 10,000 rounds in MorphoJ: ***P < 0.0001; **P < 0.01). Hemipyrellia pulchra has only females, thus it could not be used for classifying between sexes