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. 2015 Apr 29;10(4):e0125074. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125074

Table 1. Mahalanobis distances (MDs; calculated from first 6 DAPCs) between wingforms using for different combinations of morphological coefficients.

Wingform Pair LM CHRM GWT ALL MEAN
auroraM—neopictaF 5.92 4.92 5.8 5.88 5.63
auroraM—neopictaM 4.82 4.58 4.74 4.8 4.74
auroraM—ornataF 5.66 5.17 5.58 5.65 5.52
auroraM—ornataM 4.9 4.57 4.83 4.89 4.80
auroraM—spaeteriM 5.14 4.82 5.03 5.12 5.03
auroraM—victoriaM 4.96 4.58 4.88 4.93 4.84
neopictaF—neopictaM 4.39 3.18 4.32 4.36 4.06
neopictaF—ornataF 5.3 4.12 5.27 5.32 5.00
neopictaF—ornataM 4.49 3.35 4.43 4.47 4.19
neopictaF—spaeteriM 4.75 3.64 4.68 4.74 4.45
neopictaF—victoriaM 4.56 3.19 4.5 4.54 4.20
neopictaM—ornataF 4.02 3.49 4.02 4.05 3.90
neopictaM—ornataM 2.88 2.7 2.85 2.87 2.83
neopictaM—spaeteriM 3.27 3.13 3.23 3.25 3.22
neopictaM—victoriaM 2.98 2.09 2.87 2.93 2.72
ornataF—ornataM 4.14 3.64 4.15 4.15 4.02
ornataF—spaeteriM 4.36 4.08 4.4 4.41 4.31
ornataF—victoriaM 4.21 3.46 4.2 4.22 4.02
ornataM—spaeteriM 3.4 3.22 3.35 3.39 3.34
ornataM—victoriaM 3.11 2.25 3.08 3.1 2.89
spaeteriM—victoriaM 3.49 2.91 3.41 3.48 3.32
MEAN 4.32 3.67 4.27 4.31 4.14

M = male, F = female, LM = landmark coefficients, CHRM = chromaticity coefficients, GWT = Gabor wavelet transformation coefficients, and ALL = combined LM, CHRM, & GWT. MD is measured in standard deviations.