Table 1.

Richness and diversity estimation of the gut bacterial communities associated with Rhynchophorus ferrugineus during its different life stages from the pyrosequencing analysis.

Sample	Number of reads	Number of OTUs	Community diversity		Species richness
			Shannon	Simpson	Chao1	ACE
HL1	86,024	492	3.2	0.7	1052.8	929.5
HL2	99,929	311	3.6	0.8	460.8	545.2
HL3	78,582	294	2.8	0.7	413.1	440.0
HP1	33,544	597	3.9	0.8	896.9	946.4
HP2	81,496	697	4.2	0.8	1026.1	1095.9
HP3	66,927	621	3.8	0.7	691.9	705.0
HA1	34,900	245	2.5	0.7	379.4	403.0
HA2	57,071	283	2.5	0.7	423.6	468.1
HA3	57,715	273	1.7	0.4	366.4	408.6
HA4	62,052	445	2.1	0.4	623.4	736.5