Table 2. Dietary taxa identified in Daubenton’s bats fecal samples at order level.
Class | Order | Count | % prey taxa | % reads |
---|---|---|---|---|
Arachnida | Araneae | 3 | 2,3 % | 1,0 % |
Collembola | Entomobryomorpha | 1 | 0,8 % | < 0,1 % |
Insecta | Diptera | 57 | 43,5 % | 55,9 % |
Lepidoptera | 40 | 30,5 % | 7,4 % | |
Trichoptera | 11 | 8,4 % | 29,7 % | |
Hemiptera | 7 | 5,3 % | 0,5 % | |
Neuroptera | 5 | 3,8 % | 0,2 % | |
Coleoptera | 3 | 2,3 % | 2,3 % | |
Ephemeroptera | 2 | 1,5 % | 2,8 % | |
Psocoptera | 2 | 1,5 % | 0,2 % |
Number of dietary taxa of all the arthropod orders found from the faeces and their proportion of all the dietary taxa (n = 131) and proportion of reads assigned to the taxon.