Table 2.

Diet composition and proportion frequency of occurrence of diet items for 2009–2010 at Chiquintirca, Ayacucho, Peru. Starred items were found only in 2011–2012 samples, have the corresponding n next to frequency, and are included here to complete our diet composition list for plants.

Species	Akodon torques	Calomys sorellus	Microryzomys minutus	Oligoryzomys andinus	Thomasomys aureus	Thomasomys kalinowskii	Thomasomys oreas
	n = 162	n = 21	n = 34	n = 7	n = 17	n = 23	n = 64
Invertebrata	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.59	1.00	0.91
Arachnida
Araneae	0.006		0.03
Scorpiones	0.02
Insecta
Coleoptera	0.80	0.90	0.44	0.71		0.61	0.36
Hemiptera	0.09	0.05				0.04
Hymenoptera	0.20	0.10	0.03	0.14			0.05
Isoptera	0.01
Orthoptera	0.10						0.02
Unidentified larvae	0.60	0.42	0.38	0.29	0.35	0.39	0.42
Plantae
Plant parts	0.85	0.95	0.97	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.97
Monocotyledoneae	0.10		0.06		0.18	0.04	0.06
Dicotyledoneae	0.29	0.61	0.59	0.57	0.94	0.65	0.73
Seeds
Monocotyledoneae
Bromeliaceae
Greigia sp.						0.39
Dicotyledoneae
Annonaceae
Guatteria sp.					0.59	0.04	0.02
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae sp. 1	0.01		0.03		0.29	0.04	0.03
Brassicaceae sp. 2							0.03
Ericaceae
Gaultheria sp. 1	0.17	0.52	0.32	0.28	0.23	0.30	0.30
Gaultheria sp. 2	0.03	0.05					0.06
Demosthenesia sp.	0.01					0.13	0.03
Melastomataceae
Miconia sp. 1	0.14		0.06		0.59	0.43	0.26
Miconia sp. 2	0.03				0.18		0.06
Myrtaceae
Myrteola sp.							0.02
*Rosaceae sp. 1	11 (0.09)
*Rubiaceae sp. 1							3 (0.33)
*Rubiaceae sp. 2						4 (0.25)
Solanaceae
Solanaceae sp. 1					0.59
Solanaceae sp. 2					0.59	0.09
Solanaceae sp. 3					0.59	0.04
Solanaceae sp. 4						0.13
Unidentified seeds	0.02	0.05			0.12	0.22	0.06
Fungi
Glomeromycetes
Glomerales
Glomus sp.	0.58	0.57	0.71	0.57	0.47	0.74	0.59