The complete mitochondrial genome of Athetis pallidipennis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Abstract

The Athetis pallidipennis belongs to Noctuidae in Lepidoptera. The complete mitogenome of A. pallidipennis was described in this study, which is typical circular duplex molecules and 15,344 bp in length, containing the standard metazoan set of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and an A + T-rich region. The gene order is same as other lepidopterans. Except for cox1 started with CGA, all other PCGs started with the standard ATN codons. Most of the PCGs terminated with the stop codon TAA, whereas cox2 and nad4 have the incomplete stop codon T––. The phylogenetic tree showed that A. pallidipennis and another species belong to the same Genus, which are clustered into a clade.

Keywords

• athetis pallidipennis
• complete mitogenome
• noctuidae