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. 2024 Oct 18;19(10):e0308712. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308712

Table 5. Mean of morphometric ratios calculated based on worker individuals.

  algerianus (n = 44) bernardi (n = 10) gordiagini (n = 1) kraussei (n = 70) microcellatus (n = 51) ravouxi (n = 174) stumperi (n = 35)
CS 598±21.265 564±15.214 579 599±19.488 590±20.033 614±26.021 582±16.108
  [548, 639] [545, 587]   [561, 650] [546, 654] [551, 665] [551, 618]
CL/CWb 1.232±0.019 1.243±0.023 1.162 1.268±0.022 1.192±0.020 1.232±0.027 1.143±0.020
  [1.180, 1.263] [1.199, 1.270   [1.220, 1.319] [1.144, 1.230] [1.155, 1.323] [1.110, 1.188]
POC/CL 0.372±0.010 0.368±0.017 0.372 0.354±0.009 0.369±0.019 0.368±0.010 0.358±0.013
  [0.352, 0.398] [0.344, 0.406]   [0.330, 0.371] [0.348, 0.493] [0.342, 0.407] [0.335, 0.395]
SL/CL 0.702±0.015 0.714±0.031 0.723 0.706±0.018 0.734±0.018 0.672±0.022 0.703±0.030
  [0.668, 0.727] [0.677, 0.781]   [0.670, 0.748] [0.699, 0.783] [0.613, 0.733] [0.561, 0.747]
FR/CS 0.356±0.013 0.362±0.009 0.420 0.337±0.009 0.361±0.008 0.362±0.014 0.336±0.012
  [0.325, 0.383] [0.344, 0.378]   [0.316, 0.362] [0.337, 0.374] [0.328, 0.406] [0.313, 0.364]
MW/CS 0.661±0.021 0.684±0.021 0.695 0.623±0.016 0.663±0.012 0.672±0.022 0.706±0.017
  [0.629, 0.734] [0.666, 0.727]   [0.592, 0.671] [0.642, 0.705] [0.619, 0.731] [0.663, 0.735]
SPBA/CS 0.355±0.013 0.348±0.018 0.302 0.348±0.017 0.312±0.016 0.356±0.021 0.314±0.015
  [0.335, 0.405] [0.313, 0.377]   [0.311, 0.407] [0.285, 0.369] [0.296, 0.405] [0.279, 0.345]
SPWI/CS 0.367±0.016 0.387±0.015 0.290 0.381±0.025 0.328±0.015 0.378±0.026 0.332±0.021
  [0.342, 0.416] [0.363, 0.411]   [0.326, 0.440] [0.296, 0.373] [0.309, 0.459] [0.291, 0.389]
SPTI/CS 0.349±0.017 0.360±0.017 0.258 0.365±0.024 0.308±0.016 0.357±0.027 0.303±0.020
  [0.322, 0.393] [0.329, 0.388]   [0.313, 0.427] [0.277, 0.354] [0.278, 0.435] [0.261, 0.355]
PEW/CS 0.295±0.015 0.328±0.025 0.291 0.285±0.018 0.287±0.012 0.313±0.017 0.279±0.009
  [0.274, 0.349] [0.266, 0.356]   [0.258, 0.355] [0.264, 0.314] [0.268, 0.356] [0.254, 0.292]
PPW/CS 0.423±0.020 0.497±0.016 0.442 0.437±0.020 0.438±0.016 0.456±0.021 0.438±0.014
  [0.388, 0.496] [0.468, 0.517]   [0.398, 0.500] [0.405, 0.474] [0.410, 0.517] [0.405, 0.470]
ML/CS 1.232±0.030 1.252±0.033 1.292 1.210±0.034 1.251±0.026 1.274±0.037 1.273±0.022
  [1.171, 1.338] [1.212, 1.330]   [1.154, 1.323] [1.203, 1.300] [1.160, 1.370] [1.224, 1.315]
SPST/CS 0.225±0.013 0.239±0.013 0.280 0.256±0.018 0.227±0.014 0.262±0.021 0.244±0.014
  [0.200, 0.253] [0.220, 0.260]   [0.210, 0.301] [0.190, 0.266] [0.215, 0.316] [0.219, 0.268]
PLST/CS 0.362±0.013 0.367±0.021 0.411 0.355±0.019 0.392±0.015 0.376±0.019 0.372±0.015
  [0.332, 0.385] [0.346, 0.423]   [0.321, 0.416] [0.363, 0.422] [0.310, 0.441] [0.340, 0.411]
PEH/CS 0.574±0.019 0.609±0.028 0.560 0.571±0.025 0.570±0.017 0.621±0.031 0.594±0.015
  [0.531, 0.639] [0.563, 0.668]   [0.524, 0.651] [0.534, 0.603] [0.547, 0.751] [0.572, 0.623]
SPH/CS 0.268±0.013 0.295±0.019 0.280 0.285±0.016 0.317±0.029 0.306±0.021 0.291±0.017
  [0.247, 0.311] [0.266, 0.331]   [0.257, 0.337] [0.278, 0.379] [0.254, 0.359] [0.260, 0.331]
PPH/CS 0.468±0.014 0.500±0.027 0.458 0.465±0.018 0.419±0.014 0.487±0.021 0.465±0.015
  [0.439, 0.499] [0.444, 0.533]   [0.427, 0.531] [0.395, 0.458] [0.426, 0.543] [0.435, 0.514]
EYE/CS 0.244±0.008 0.258±0.021 0.265 0.236±0.008 0.258±0.010 0.250±0.009 0.253±0.010
  [0.230, 0.262] [0.200, 0.272]   [0.217, 0.250] [0.237, 0.283] [0.226, 0.280] [0.229, 0.275]

Morphometric traits are divided by cephalic size (CWb), ±SD are provided in the upper row, minimum and maximum values are given in parentheses in the lower row.