Complete mitochondrial genome of Penthimia melanocephala Motschulsky, 1863 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)

Abstract

Penthimia is the largest genus in the tribe Penthimiini of the subfamily Deltocephalinae. To date, there are no available mitogenome sequences from Penthimia. In this study, we have sequenced and annotated the complete mitogenome of Penthimia melanocephala (Motschulsky 1863), the mitogenome is 15,308 bp in length, which including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and a long non-coding region (control Region), base composition of whole sequences are A (50.4%), C (15.3%), G (10.0%), and T (24.3%). All PCGs started with the typical ATN codon and stopped with the typical TAN codon except for COII and COIII stopped with single T. Within phylogenetic tree, Deltocephalinae members were clustered into a clade. The complete mitogenome of P. melanocephala can provide essential DNA molecular data for further evolutionary and phylogenetic analysis.

Keywords

• mitogenome
• penthimia melanocephala
• phylogeny