MORPHOMETRIC STUDIES ON POPULATION SAMPLES OF SOLDIER CASTE OF ODONTOTERMES MATANGENSIS, N.SP (ISOPTERA: RHINOTERMITIDAE)

In order to study morphometric variations in Odontotermes matangensis n.sp. samples from three different nests were statistically analyzed for mean, standard deviation, standard error, coefficient of variability, confidence interval (95%) and analysis of variance (Model II ANOVA). The mean values of the different population samples were compared with the help of student ‘s ‘t’ test. In addition to this, population samples for the species collected from geographic range of the species have been compared according to Manhattan Distance (Mayer and Ashlock, 1991) to highlight similarities and differences of the population samples.