Table 4. 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 size frequency distributions based on the linear measures made for all 16 insect species considered.

Species	n	W	P	g1	g2
Microhodotermes viator	98	0.894	<0.0001	0.826**	−0.453ns
Gryllus bimaculatus	199	0.971	0.0003	0.208ns	−0.567ns
Nysius sp.	120	0.980	0.071	0.094ns	−0.114ns
Rhagovelia maculata	108	0.903	<0.0001	−0.044ns	−1.506**
Dira clytus	107	0.937	<0.0001	0.728**	4.743***
Setapion provinciale	112	0.975	0.035	−0.194ns	−0.827ns
Setapion quantillum	120	0.952	0.0003	−0.819***	0.532ns
Chrysomelid sp	172	0.953	<0.0001	0.046ns	−0.367ns
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata	207	0.988	0.068	−0.226ns	0.529ns
Gonipterus scutellatus	138	0.965	0.0014	−0.107ns	−1.012ns
Pachnoda sinuata	107	0.987	0.417	0.044ns	−0.459ns
Ceratitis capitata	103	0.966	0.010	0.172ns	−0.341ns
Formicidae sp	119	0.766	<0.0001	0.412ns	−1.722**
Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae	140	0.940	<0.0001	−0.608**	−0.193ns
Trichilogaster signiventris	102	0.959	0.003	−0.530*	0.879ns
Polistes sp.	97	0.980	0.156	0.097ns	−0.315ns

*P<0.05,

**P<0.01,

***P<0.001,

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