Under pressure: force resistance measurements in box mites (Actinotrichida, Oribatida)

Table 2 Absolute and relative measurement results. Phthiracaroidea have been sorted by length. All values have been rounded. A, Archegozetes longisetosus; E, Euphthiracaroidea; P, Phthiracaroidea (P_S, P smaller than E; P_E, P with same length as E; P_XL, P larger than E; P_total, P_S, P_E, and P_XL combined); S, Steganacarus magnus. Numbers in bold indicate the respective lowest and highest values

	A	E	P_total	P_S	P_E	P_XL	S
N (total = 151)	26	25	71	17	30	24	29
Breaking point [g]
Minimum	6.81	6.78	5.87	5.87	20.76	47.65	39.88
Maximum	15.05	29.6	112.95	32.06	60.96	112.95	171.76
Mean	11.57	16.98	49.25	18.29	38.6	84.5	93.37
Median	11.44	15.59	40.04	15.3	36.11	85.86	90.69
Standard deviation	2.06	6.01	29.31	8.19	11.29	15.95	29.94
Breaking point [N]
Minimum	0.067	0.067	0.058	0.058	0.204	0.467	0.391
Maximum	0.148	0.29	1.108	0.315	0.598	1.108	1.685
Mean	0.114	0.167	0.483	0.179	0.379	0.829	0.916
Median	0.112	0.153	0.393	0.15	0.354	0.843	0.89
Standard deviation	0.02	0.059	0.286	0.08	0.111	0.157	0.294
Breaking point per body weight
Minimum	50,074	106,204	139,762	139,762	173,696	167,292	165,477
Maximum	108,273	269,091	558,333	558,333	443,929	287,087	410,788
Mean	79,972.31	163,076.4	281,494.8	353,129.1	279,082	233,769.9	264,568.6
Median	79,649	154,964	270,296	346,818	282,452.5	240,480.5	247,934
Standard deviation	13,539.42	39,835.77	79,134.99	97,656.87	62,903.98	35,478.37	57,106.49

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