Morphological Caste Differences in Three Species of the Neotropical Genus Clypearia (Hymenoptera: Polistinae: Epiponini)

Table 3

Discrimination between queens, workers, and intermediate females in all analyzed colonies of genus Clypearia after forward stepwise discriminant function analyses.

Colony	Character	Wilks’ Lambda	P
C. sulcata II	GW	0.96	.08
	HW	0.94	.11
C. sulcata III	IDm	0.98	${}^{*}$
	HW	0.90	${}^{*}$
	MSW	0.77	.21
C. angustior	IDm	0.60	${}^{*}$
	T2BW	0.27	.42
	WL	0.35	.10
	GW	0.30	.26
C. duckei	T2BW	0.87	${}^{*}$
	IDm	0.78	${}^{*}$
	HW	0.75	${}^{*}$
	GW	0.71	.03

${}_{}{}^{*}P<.01$.