Table 3. Outcome of the assessment of deviation from normality (Shapiro-Wilks W statistic) and the degree of skewness (g₁) and kurtosis (g₂) for the log transformed body mass frequency distributions of all 16 insect species considered.

Species	n	W	P	g1	g2
Microhodotermes viator	102	0.981	0.152	0.042ns	−0.494ns
Gryllus bimaculatus	201	0.962	<0.0001	−0.607***	3.811***
Nysius sp.	120	0.989	0.420	−0.274ns	−0.058ns
Rhagovelia maculata	108	0.899	<0.0001	−1.226***	1.476**
Dira clytus	109	0.860	<0.0001	1.683***	4.534***
Setapion provinciale	112	0.952	0.0005	−1.00***	2.926***
Setapion quantillum	120	0.948	0.0001	−0.851***	0.755ns
Chrysomelid sp	175	0.975	0.003	0.484**	0.221ns
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata	207	0.991	0.263	−0.202ns	0.301ns
Gonipterus scutellatus	138	0.981	0.051	−0.291ns	−0.373ns
Pachnoda sinuata	108	0.992	0.805	−0.232ns	0.029ns
Ceratitis capitata	103	0.974	0.042	0.141ns	−0.378ns
Formicidae sp	120	0.779	<0.0001	0.412ns	−1.718*
Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae	143	0.859	<0.0001	−0.779***	−0.657ns
Trichilogaster signiventris	107	0.955	0.001	−0.649**	−0.059ns
Polistes sp.	103	0.961	0.0037	−0.279ns	1.949**

*P<0.05,

**P<0.01,

***P<0.001,

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