Correspondence analysis of the major families sampled from all sites separated markedly desert (yellow polygon) and grassland (green polygon) sites. Noctuidae and Cossidae were more associated with desert sites, whereas other families were associated with grassland sites. First two axes of the graph together explain 76.2% of the variation.

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... found 96 unique species in total, i.e., species which occurred only in one site. Overall, the unique species numbers of the grassland sites (n = 70) were higher than those of the desert sites (n = 26, Kruskal-Wallis Test: p < 0.005). Site 3 had only one unique species, whereas Site 10 had 27 unique species (see Fig. S4 in supplementary ...

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... diversity. According to K-means clustering we classified the ten sites into two groups and performed a correspondence analysis based on the family matrix, which indicated clear distinction in the composition of www.nature.com/scientificreports/ major families in two groups (Fig. 4). Noctuidae and Cossidae were more abundant in the desert sites, while other families were remarkably abundant in the grassland sites. Distinction between these groups was significant (Permanova: R 2 = 0.37, p < ...