Mitochondrial genome of a leaf-mining beetle Prionispa champaka Maulik (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)

Jiasheng Xu; Chengqing Liao; Qingyun Guo; Chengpeng Long; Xiaohua Dai

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1413318

Mitochondrial genome of a leaf-mining beetle Prionispa champaka Maulik (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Feb 1;3(1):147-148. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1413318.

Authors

Jiasheng Xu¹, Chengqing Liao¹, Qingyun Guo¹, Chengpeng Long¹, Xiaohua Dai^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Leafminer Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, China.
² National Navel-Orange Engineering Research Center, Ganzhou, China.

Abstract

Prionispa champaka is a leaf-mining species which feeds on Pollia spp. and widely distributes in southern China. The complete mitogenomic sequence of P. champaka (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) was obtained and annotated, with a length of 20,494 bp. It was longer than those of other Chrysomelid species (not including Bruchinae) because of its much longer non-coding sequences. Gene arrangement and content of P. champaka was identical to the most common type in insects, and it was also biased toward AT (accounting for 78.4%). Phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial PCGs indicated that P. champaka was closely clustered with 5 other Cassidinae species, supporting the traditional morphological classification within Cassidinae.

Keywords: Cassidinae; Leaf-miner; Prionispa champaka; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.