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. 2022 Oct 28;84(12):1610–1616. doi: 10.1292/jvms.22-0153

Table 3. The diet composition (percentage of each type of dietary item (%N) and occurrence frequency of each prey (F)), the Shannon-Wiener index, and Jaccard distance for total data and by sex and age class of Diploderma swinhonis in Hyuga city.

Class Order Total Male Female Juvenile Significance




N% F N% F N% F N% F
Insecta Balattodea 0.11% 0.02 0.00% 0.00 0.23% 0.04 0.00% 0.00
Coleoptera 6.24% 0.44 5.84% 0.49 6.64% 0.41 5.96% 0.43
Dermaptera 0.11% 0.02 0.15% 0.02 0.11% 0.02 0.00% 0.00
Diptera 0.05% 0.01 0.00% 0.00 0.00% 0.00 0.33% 0.04
Hemiptera 4.75% 0.29 4.23% 0.37 5.86% 0.33 2.65% 0.11
Hymenoptera 75.15% 0.81 77.08% 0.88 73.54% 0.82 75.50% 0.68
Lepidoptera 0.05% 0.01 0.15% 0.02 0.00% 0.00 0.00% 0.00
Mantodea 0.16% 0.03 0.15% 0.02 0.23% 0.04 0.00% 0.00
Orthoptera 0.21% 0.03 0.15% 0.02 0.34% 0.06 0.00% 0.00
Psocoptera 0.05% 0.01 0.00% 0.00 0.00% 0.00 0.33% 0.04
Phasmatodea 0.11% 0.02 0.00% 0.00 0.23% 0.04 0.00% 0.00
Arachnida Araneae 2.08% 0.25 2.92% 0.37 1.69% 0.24 1.32% 0.07
Dipropoda 1.49% 0.17 1.02% 0.15 2.36% 0.29 0.00% 0.00
Chilopoda 0.59% 0.07 0.44% 0.07 0.56% 0.06 0.99% 0.07
Gastropoda Stylommatophora 0.16% 0.03 0.00% 0.00 0.34% 0.06 0.00% 0.00
Malacostraca Amphipoda 0.11% 0.02 0.00% 0.00 0.00% 0.00 0.66% 0.07 *
Malacostraca Isopoda 0.75% 0.08 0.29% 0.05 0.90% 0.06 1.32% 0.14
Larva (mainly lepidoptera) 3.63% 0.38 4.53% 0.41 2.59% 0.37 4.64% 0.36
Unknown 4.21% 0.42 3.07% 0.34 4.39% 0.47 6.29% 0.46

Shannon-Wiener index 1.35 1.25 1.42 1.22

Jaccard distance vs. female 0.25 vs. juvenile 0.67
vs. juvenile 0.59

*P<0.05.