Table 5.
Best ratios found by the LDA ratio extractor for separating various groupings of Polistes. Asterisks mark those comparisons, where the groups have very little or no overlap and the best ratios thus were eligible for use in the identification key.
| females | |||||
| group comparison | best ratio | range group 1 | range group 2 | standard distance | δ |
| biglumis–rest* | msp.l: pol.l | 1.22–1.76 | 0.79–1.24 | 4.62 | 0.29 |
| helveticus–bischoffi* | tib3.l: msp.l | 7.61–9.33 | 9.57–11.5 | 6.19 | 0.10 |
| helveticus–gallicus | hea.b: msp.l | 7.29–8.80 | 8.23–10.08 | 4.34 | 0.05 |
| helveticus–hellenicus | tib3.l: msp.l | 7.61–9.33 | 9.00–11.13 | 4.72 | 0.09 |
| bischoffi–gallicus | flglast.l: msp.l | 1.00–1.24 | 0.84–1.07 | 4.07 | 0.19 |
| bischoffi–hellenicus | flglast.l: msp.l | 1.00–1.24 | 0.74–1.11 | 4.25 | 0.22 |
| males | |||||
| group comparison | best ratio | range group 1 | range group 2 | standard distance | δ |
| biglumis–rest* | lof.l: cly.b | 1.29–1.45 | 1.46–1.69 | 8.36 | 0.31 |
| helveticus–bischoffi* | flglast.l: msp.l | 1.08–1.72 | 1.93–2.75 | 6.82 | 0.08 |
| helveticus–gallicus | flglast.l: pol.l | 0.83–1.32 | 1.09–1.55 | 3.54 | 0.09 |
| helveticus–hellenicus | flglast.l: msp.l | 1.08–1.72 | 1.44–2.16 | 5.92 | 0.01 |
| bischoffi–gallicus | flglast.l: msp.l | 1.93–2.75 | 1.28–2.21 | 3.50 | 0.18 |
| bischoffi–hellenicus* | hea.b: hea.h | 1.21–1.29 | 1.15–1.21 | 6.27 | 0.10 |