Table 3.

Homoplasy test in four scorpion species. (***p values <0.000 1, **p values >0.000 1 and <0.01, and *p values >0.01 and <0.05.)

	polymorphic sitesa	informative sites	effective number of sites (Se)	observed homoplasies	expected homoplasies	p value	homoplasy index from MPT
B. mardochei	123	99	136	198	192.633	0.364	0.349
M. caucasicus	105	79	146	136	93.512	0.000***	0.331
M. eupeus	117	95	124	159	230.82	1	0.356
M. gibbosus	88	78	126	69	61.653	0.229	0.349

^aThe number of polymorphic sites differs from table 1, owing to the inclusion of the out-group A. australis and only third codon positions are included for analysis.