Table 2. Competitive ability of C. floridanum in singly and multi-parasitized hosts.
| % of hosts producing | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competitor multiparasitized | Sex of C. floridanum | Cf | Gp | Cr | Mp | % host pupation | % host death |
| G. pallipes | Male | 68.0a | 20.0b | 4.0 | 8.0 | ||
| Female | 78.0a | 12.0b | 2.0 | 8.0 | |||
| C. ruficrus | Male | 80.0a | 6.0b | 2.0 | 12.0 | ||
| Female | 76.0a | 4.0b | 0.0 | 20.0 | |||
| M. pulchricornis | Male | 34.0a | 0.0b | 0.0 | 66.0 | ||
| Female | 36.0a | 2.0b | 0.0 | 62.0 | |||
| C. floridanum alone | Male | 86.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | |||
| Female | 88.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| G. pallipes alone | 80.0 | 8.0 | 12.0 | ||||
| C. ruficrus alone | 74.0 | 14.0 | 12.0 | ||||
| M. pulchricornis alone | 56.0 | 0.0 | 44.0 | ||||
Hosts were multiparasitized at 2nd instar. One hundred hosts (n = 100) were used for each experiment, except for the competition with M. pulchricornis (n = 50). Two types of statistical tests are performed: (1) two-tailed binomial test by F-distribution approximation for the superiority of C. floridanum (male or female) against each competitor, where a indicates significant at p = 0.00000 and (2) Fisher's exact probability test for the effects of C. floridanum (male or female) on the success of each competitor, where b indicates significant at p = 0.00000.