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Table 1 Summary of Wolbachia infection percentages in Lepidoptera

From: Wolbachia in butterflies and moths: geographic structure in infection frequency

Category

No. of populations

No. of species

No. of individuals

 

n (I)

n(I)

n(I)

A. Host Taxonomy (Superfamily)

Bombycoidea

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

Drepanoidea

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

Gelechioidea

2(1.0)

1(1.0)

2(1.0)

Geometroidea

3(0.33)

3(0.33)

5(0.2)

Gracillarioidea

24(0.33)

20(0.35)

91(0.78)

Hepialoidea

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

4(1.0)

Lasiocampoidea

1(1.0)

1(1.0)

2(0.5)

Noctuoidea

29(0.34)

27(0.37)

129(0.42)

Papilionoidea

555(0.29)

224(0.39)

4137(0.42)

Pyraloidea

63(0.73)

19(0.78)

3013(0.19)

Tortricoidea

1(0.0)

1(0.0)

1(0.0)

Yponomeutoidea

11(0.36)

1(1.0)

306(0.05)

Total

692(0.35)

300*(0.43)

7689(0.33)

B. Host Geography (Continents)

Africa

21(0.71)

9(0.77)

999(0.47)

Asia

326(0.28)

137(0.55)

4407(0.22)

Australia

2(0.5)

2(1.0)

78(0.03)

Europe

202(0.15)

46(0.45)

728(0.53)

North America

42(0.83)

31(0.87)

557(0.40)

Oceania

8(0.87)

1(1.0)

821(0.55)

South America

1(0.0)

1(1.0)

10(0.0)

NC

90(0.1)

89(0.10)

89(0.09)

Total

692(0.35)

316a(0.45)

7689(0.33)

  1. n = total number; I = proportion infected; NC = Not calculated due to uncertainty of geographical location; a21 species were infected in some populations and not in others, we considered marking a species as infected if any of its populations contained infection. Sixteen species were sampled on more than one continent (details in Additional file 1: Table S1)