Table 3. Correlation between measures of host plant diversity with butterfly species richness.
| α | PDrand | ||||||||
| Family | Subfamily | Number of species | H | Mean | SE | PDobs | Mean | SD | p (PDobs ≠ PDrand) |
| Papilionidae | Baroniinae | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Parnassiinae | 61 | 7 | 2.277 | 1.036 | 3.889 | 3.781 | 0.712 | 0.565 | |
| Papilioninae | 400 | 26 | 6.306 | 1.418 | 6.19 | 8.676 | 1.025 | 0.008 | |
| Hedylidae | Hedylidae | 36 | 4 | 0.935 | 0.863 | 1.397 | 2.556 | 0.604 | 0.032 |
| Hesperiidae | Coeliadinae | 89 | 21 | 9.966 | 2.848 | 5.968 | 7.55 | 0.97 | 0.041 |
| Euschemoninae | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| Eudaminae | 430 | 26 | 7.325 | 1.731 | 6.54 | 8.595 | 1.054 | 0.025 | |
| Pyrginae | 642 | 26 | 6.708 | 1.562 | 6.365 | 8.645 | 1.024 | 0.011 | |
| Pyrrhopyginae | 490 | 20 | 6.426 | 1.726 | 4.952 | 7.327 | 0.967 | 0.007 | |
| Heteropterinae | 182 | 1 | 0.241 | 0.276 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| Trapezitinae | 75 | 2 | 0.409 | 0.324 | 1.079 | 1.347 | 0.569 | 0.194 | |
| Hesperiinae | 2,020 | 25 | 5.438 | 1.228 | 6.111 | 8.409 | 1.036 | 0.013 | |
| Megathyminae | 39 | 1 | 0.191 | 0.212 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| Pieridae | Pseudopontiinae | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 1.254 | 1.392 | 0.565 | 0.395 |
| Dismorphiinae | 58 | 3 | 1.090 | 0.775 | 1.286 | 2.038 | 0.571 | 0.084 | |
| Coliadinae | 180 | 20 | 5.494 | 1.486 | 5.254 | 7.310 | 0.996 | 0.018 | |
| Pierinae | 761 | 29 | 7.62 | 1.642 | 6.571 | 9.207 | 1.04 | 0.004 | |
| Nymphalidae | Libytheinae | 10 | 5 | 4.632 | 3.325 | 3.635 | 3.026 | 0.651 | 0.824 |
| Danainae | 167 | 19 | 6.192 | 1.711 | 5.46 | 7.126 | 0.985 | 0.042 | |
| Ithomiinae | 339 | 7 | 1.774 | 0.774 | 2.889 | 3.803 | 0.676 | 0.085 | |
| Tellervinae | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | ||
| Calinaginae | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | ||
| Satyrinae | 2,292 | 12 | 2.034 | 0.679 | 4.111 | 5.357 | 0.866 | 0.068 | |
| Morphinae | 245 | 18 | 5.477 | 1.536 | 5.286 | 6.823 | 0.977 | 0.048 | |
| Charaxinae | 342 | 25 | 6.312 | 1.456 | 5.698 | 8.437 | 1.041 | 0.005 | |
| Pseudergolinae | 7 | 3 | 1.989 | 1.651 | 1.889 | 2.042 | 0.576 | 0.332 | |
| Biblidinae | 275 | 11 | 3.023 | 1.065 | 3.254 | 5.100 | 0.839 | 0.010 | |
| Apaturinae | 87 | 5 | 1.383 | 0.724 | 2.571 | 3.023 | 0.631 | 0.201 | |
| Cyrestinae | 46 | 4 | 1.594 | 1.001 | 2.381 | 2.572 | 0.595 | 0.300 | |
| Nymphalinae | 509 | 33 | 8.02 | 1.601 | 6.651 | 10.065 | 1.046 | 0.001 | |
| Heliconiinae | 562 | 29 | 7.088 | 1.51 | 7.143 | 9.222 | 1.078 | 0.032 | |
| Limenitidinae | 1,023 | 31 | 8.21 | 1.713 | 7.73 | 9.672 | 1.107 | 0.043 | |
| Riodinidae | Euselasiinae | 171 | 5 | 2.212 | 1.273 | 2.873 | 3.055 | 0.627 | 0.39 |
| Riodininae | 1,138 | 30 | 8.66 | 1.863 | 7.873 | 9.471 | 1.026 | 0.06 | |
| Nemeobiinae | 82 | 3 | 1.128 | 0.807 | 2.444 | 2.028 | 0.562 | 0.75 | |
| Lycaenidae | Curetinae | 18 | 2 | 0.797 | 0.708 | 1.238 | 1.334 | 0.562 | 0.44 |
| Poritiinae | 721 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Miletinae | 188 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Aphnaeinae | 286 | 19 | 5.897 | 1.615 | 4.460 | 7.129 | 0.998 | 0.005 | |
| Polyommatinae | 1,477 | 32 | 6.732 | 1.338 | 7.413 | 9.815 | 1.085 | 0.014 | |
| Lycaeninae | 110 | 8 | 2.328 | 0.971 | 2.762 | 4.164 | 0.747 | 0.022 | |
| Theclinae | 2,276 | 39 | 7.974 | 1.43 | 8.413 | 11.259 | 0.99 | 0.004 |
h = simple richness of host plant orders. α = Fishers’s alpha. PD = Faith’s index of Phylogenetic Diversity based on plant phylogeny, with values observed (obs) and expected under random sampling of the phylogeny (rand).