*Group centroid indicated by an asterisk

Discrimination Among Two Cryptic Species of Mites of the Genus Cheletophyes Associated with large African Carpenter Bees, Xylocopa torrida and Xylocopa nigrita
*All regulated by Code names used here are not available names. They will be available when the paper describing them will be published.

To classify an unknown specimen input raw measurements and, scale coefficients (if measurements are in different scale)
and press the button "Classify Specimen" below

You can paste measurements from any spreadsheet application into the textbox below. Data must be arranged in a single row.



Calculations involve the following formula:
CV = b1*x1 + b2*x2 + ... + bn*xn + c
b1,b2,...bnCoefficients for CV1-CVn
x1,x2,...xn
cConstant

Data:
Measurements used to develop and verify this classification model can be downloaded as a MS Excel file here
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