Experimental evidence of pollination by deception in a dioecious palm

Table 1 Kruskal Wallis P and post hoc Z statistic comparison of the number of insects captured in one-hour intervals from 06:00 to 21:00 in female and male artificial flowers for the 16 most abundant visiting morphospecies

Morpho-species	Male AF one day—Female AF one day		Quantity comparison	Male AF one day—Female AF two days		Quantity comparison
Morpho-species	P	Z	Quantity comparison	P	Z	Quantity comparison
CR3	1.44E-05*	4.34	Male AF > Female AF	0.88		Male AF = Female AF
CU2	7.66E-04*	3.36	Male AF > Female AF	0.89		Male AF = Female AF
CU3_9	9.43E-04*	3.30	Male AF > Female AF	0.98		Male AF = Female AF
CU8	0.01*	2.65	Male AF > Female AF	1		Male AF = Female AF
CU1_4	0.12		Male AF = Female AF	0.03*	−2.17	Male AF < Female AF
DR	4.15E-09*	5.88	Male AF > Female AF	0.05*	1.97	Male AF > Female AF
SPH1	0.15		Male AF = Female AF	0.01*	−2.59	Male AF < Female AF
SPH2	0.05		Male AF = Female AF	0.08		Male AF = Female AF
SC1	0.82		Male AF = Female AF	0.01*	−2.59	Male AF < Female AF
ND5	0.99		Male AF = Female AF	3.13E-04*	−3.60	Male AF < Female AF
ND1	2.07E-03*	3.08	Male AF > Female AF	0.97		Male AF = Female AF
PTIL1	0.01	2.60	Male AF > Female AF	0.78		Male AF = Female AF
ST2	0.09		Male AF = Female AF	0.21		Male AF = Female AF
ST4	8.85E-04*	3.32	Male AF > Female AF	0.58		Male AF = Female AF
ST5	0.02	2.42	Male AF > Female AF	0.46		Male AF = Female AF
ST6	1.37E-07*	5.27	Male AF > Female AF	0.12		Male AF = Female AF

^{Male AF (artificial flower with 400 μL of p}⁻^{methylanisole). Female AF (artificial flower with 50 μL of p}⁻^{methylanisole)}
^{One day refers to the average insect capture values in a one}⁻^{day time series}
^{Two days refers to a*2 multiplication of the mean insect catch values in a one}⁻^{day time series, resembling two days, simulating the behavior of a female inflorescence that stays open longer}
^{Asterisks represent a significantP (< 0.05) in the Kruskal–Wallis test indicating a significant difference in the mean abundance between the two groups}
^{Z is the statistic that indicates the magnitude of the standard difference between the groups compared}
^{Quantity comparison reflects if male AF attracts a higher number of insects than female AF or vice−versa}
^{The name of each morphospecies corresponds to the taxonomic family to which they belong: Coleoptera: CRChrysomelidae, CUCurculionidae, NDNitidulidae, SCScarabaeidae, STStaphylinidae, PTILPtilidae, Diptera: DRDrosophilidae, SPHSphaeroceridae}
^{The numbers after the taxonomy abbreviations generate a unique code in the order in which we define the different morphospecies found for each family}
^{The AF with the highest and significantly higher number of attracted insects is marked in bold. Where both treatments attracted statistically similar numbers the two are in bold}

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