Establishment of a Colony of Phlebotomus argentipes under Laboratory Conditions and Morphometric Variation between Wild-Caught and Laboratory-Reared Populations

Table 3

Characterization of wild-caught and laboratory-reared populations using the loadings of principal component analyses on 11 morphometric variables.

Morphometric variable	Principal components
	PC1	PC2
Head length	0.27439	0.11533
Head width	0.23800	−0.03821
Labium	0.28897	0.13788
Labrum	−0.19840	0.93904
A3 length	0.32505	0.13314
Palp length	0.33891	0.10048
Hind femur length	0.34129	0.10984
Hind tibia length	0.33952	0.09148
Wing length	0.27080	−0.17736
Wing width	0.32127	0.00877
Total body length	0.34114	0.068136