Table 2. Outcome of the assessment of deviation from normality (Shapiro-Wilks W statistic) and the degree of skewness (g₁) and kurtosis (g₂) for the untransformed body mass frequency distributions of all 16 insect species considered.

Species	n	W	P	g1	g2
Microhodotermes viator	102	0.923	<0.0001	0.872***	0.301ns
Gryllus bimaculatus	201	0.973	0.0006	0.537**	1.338**
Nysius sp.	120	0.989	0.477	0.227ns	−0.329ns
Rhagovelia maculata	108	0.953	0.0008	−0.694**	0.184ns
Dira clytus	109	0.663	<0.0001	3.174***	12.177***
Setapion provinciale	112	0.993	0.838	−0.102ns	0.257ns
Setapion quantillum	120	0.982	0.110	−0.265ns	0.181ns
Chrysomelid sp	175	0.929	<0.0001	1.024***	1.035ns
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata	207	0.988	0.073	0.333ns	0.438ns
Gonipterus scutellatus	138	0.979	0.032	0.229ns	−0.722ns
Pachnoda sinuata	108	0.994	0.920	0.165ns	−0.068ns
Ceratitis capitata	103	0.955	0.0015	0.559*	−0.318ns
Formicidae sp	120	0.753	<0.0001	0.508*	−1.657*
Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae	143	0.889	<0.0001	−0.260ns	−1.508*
Trichilogaster signiventris	107	0.976	0.051	−0.025ns	−0.912ns
Polistes sp.	103	0.951	0.0007	0.693**	3.211**

*P<0.05,

**P<0.01,

***P<0.001,

ns = not significant, after correction for the false discovery rate.