Complete mitochondrial genome of the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula White, 1845 (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae)

Na Ra Jeong; Min Jee Kim; Wonhoon Lee; Gwan-Seok Lee; Iksoo Kim

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1703577

Complete mitochondrial genome of the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula White, 1845 (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 16;5(1):370-372. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1703577.

Authors

Na Ra Jeong¹, Min Jee Kim^{1

2}, Wonhoon Lee³, Gwan-Seok Lee⁴, Iksoo Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
² Herbal Medicine Resources Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Naju, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Plant Medicine and Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Agro-food Safety and Crop Protection, Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Wanju, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula White, 1845 (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae), is an invasive pest that attacks forest as well as agricultural trees. We sequenced the 15,798-bp long complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of this species; it consists of a typical set of genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 22 tRNA genes) and one major non-coding A + T-rich region. The orientation and gene order of the L. delicatula mitogenome are identical to that of the ancestral type found in majority of the insects. Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogeny placed the L. delicatula examined in our study, together with other geographical samples of the species in a group with the highest nodal support, forming the subfamily Aphaeninae to which L. delicatula belongs.

Keywords: Fulgoridae; Lycorma delicatula; mitochondrial genome.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the ‘Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development [Project No. PJ01338901]’, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.