Complete mitochondrial genomes of two insular races of Pazala swordtails from Taiwan, China (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Graphium)

Shao-Ji Hu; Xin Zhang; Kuang Duan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1915719

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two insular races of Pazala swordtails from Taiwan, China (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Graphium)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Apr 26;6(4):1557-1559. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1915719.

Authors

Shao-Ji Hu^{1

2}, Xin Zhang³, Kuang Duan⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
² Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
³ Kunming Youning Biotech Co., Ltd, Kunming, China.
⁴ School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.

Abstract

The mitogenomes of two insular subspecies of Pazala, G. (P.) eurous asakurae and G. (P.) mullah chungianus from Taiwan Island, are reported. Both mitogenomes are circular, 15,228 bp and 15,240 bp in length respectively, and consist of 37 genes, including 13 PCGs, 22 tRNAs, and two rRNAs. The Bayesian phylogenetic tree containing the focal taxa and 31 other Papilioninae members clustered them with G. (P.) mullah (Alphéraky, 1897) and then G. (P.) parus (Nicéville, 1900) inside tribe Leptocircini, which agrees with their taxonomic positions. The findings of this study would benefit future understanding of phylogeography and conservation of subgenus Pazala.

Keywords: Sino-Himalaya; insular endemic subspecies; protein coding genes; ribosomal RNA; transfer RNA.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the NSFC Programme of China under 41761011; Biodiversity Conservation Programme of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China (China-BON Butterflies) under SDZXWJZ01013.