The use of morphometric characters to discriminate populations of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (Nematoda: Heterorhabditidae) Author Soleimani, Ahmad 0009-0008-4798-5560 Author Kary, Naser Eivazian https: // orcid. org 0000 - 0001 - 5800 - 0538 Author Moslehi, Shalaleh https: // orcid. org 0000 - 0001 - 5314 - 7418 text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-19 5293 1 74 94 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.3 1175-5326 7959771 74FC6914-91D4-4984-B5D3-E9B17DCB399C

TABLE 3. Component matrix shows the factor loading of the morphometric variables of infective juveniles of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora populations and two first components after varimax rotation.

	IJ			Female				Hermaphrodite				Male
1) Abw: Anal body width; 2) Es: Distance from anterior end to base of pharynx; 3) EP: Distance from anterior end to excretory pore; 4) Nr: Distance from anterior end to nerve ring; 5) A: Length divided by width; 6) B: Length divided by Es; 7) C: Length divided by TL; 8) D: Es divided by EP ×100; 9) E: EP divided by TL ×100; 10) F: W divided by TL ×100; 11) SpL: Spicule length; 12) GL: Gubernaculum length.
	PC1	PC2	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC1	PC2	PC3
Length	0.294	0.201	0.925	0.167	0.182	0.250	0.933	0.272	0.017	0.200	0.383	0. 756	0.385
Body Width	0.140	0.167	0.442	0.362	0.311	0.700	0.592	0.282	-0.047	0.605	0. 833	0.008	0.249
Abw 1	-0.198	0.058	0.132	0.785	0.083	0.137	0.717	0.261	-0.224	0.228	0. 634	0.115	0.362
Tail Length	0.206	-0.022	0.316	0.884	0.128	-0.215	-	-	-	-	0. 807	0.243	0.281
Es 2	0.036	0.999	0.368	-0.027	0.884	0.072	0.306	0.849	-0.027	0.354	0.275	0.030	0.879
EP 3	0.648	0.395	0.660	0.188	0.518	-0.073	0.243	0.943	0.068	-0.043	-	-	-
Nr 4	0.999	0.052	0.151	0.389	0.486	0.181	-	-	-	-	0.181	0.208	0.826
A 5	0.093	-0.010	0. 963	0.037	0.087	-0.040	0.938	0.226	0.018	0.015	-0.514	0.750	0.128
B 6	0.219	-0.562	0.927	0.194	-0.113	0.261	0.987	0.011	0.016	0.102	0.283	0. 858	-0.110
C 7	-	-	0.903	-0.094	0.157	0.346	0.931	0.203	0.192	0.164
D 8	-0.559	-0.520	0.165	0.133	-0.775	-0.217	-0.107	-0.073	0.046	-0.843
E 9	-	-	0.205	-0.829	0.289	0.173	0.050	0.585	0.764	-0.242	-0. 811	-0.231	-0.034
F 10	0.033	0.118	0.207	-0.296	0.193	0.906	0.376	0.026	0.764	0.420
SpL 11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.231	0.528	0.190
GL 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.502	0.289	0.322