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Table 1. Arthropod orders with the highest number of species richness (morphospecies) and abundance of specimens collected (abundance) in foliar, soil, and dung habitats. Arthropods communities were collected from cattle grazed pastures (n = 10) in the southeastern US from May – October 2018.