=944.486, P < 0.05). The selection ratios indicated that L. etheridgei selects positivelyfor Lygaeidae (Wi = 14.675  4.456, P < 0.002), whereas it selects negatively against Anthomyiidae (Wi = 0.166  0.111, P < 0.002), Formicidae (Wi = 0.028 0.056, P < 0.002), Cicadelidae (Wi = 0.142  0.199, P < 0.002), Drosophilidae (Wi = 0.028  0.078, P < 0.002) and Tephritidae (Wi = 0.231  0.655, P < 0.002), (P values compared with Bonferroni level = 0.002) (Figure 6). The confidence intervals of the remaining prey categories included the critical value 1; thus, there was no selective process for those food items.
 
Trophic niche breadth was broader in Tuctumpaya (