The complete mitochondrial genome of Aegialites californicus (Motchoulsky, 1845) (insecta: coleoptera: salpingidae)

Marianne Nilsen Haugen; Vladimir I Gusarov; Torsten Hugo Struck

doi:10.1080/23802359.2024.2309255

The complete mitochondrial genome of Aegialites californicus (Motchoulsky, 1845) (insecta: coleoptera: salpingidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2024 Jan 30;9(1):214-218. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2024.2309255. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Marianne Nilsen Haugen¹, Vladimir I Gusarov¹, Torsten Hugo Struck¹

Affiliation

¹ Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

The flightless intertidal beetle genus Aegialites (family Salpingidae) is distributed along the Northern Pacific coasts, from California to Alaska and from Northern Japan to Kamchatka. Systematics of Aegialites and its phylogenetic relationships to other members of Salpingidae are unclear, and little genetic information is available. We here present the first complete mitochondrial genome of this genus, represented by Aegialites californicus (Motchoulsky, 1845) from Sonoma County, California, U.S.A. The complete mitochondrial genome of A. californicus is 15,899 bp long and comprises 13 protein-coding (PCG), two ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. The phylogenetic analysis places A.californicus as sister to other members of family Salpingidae. The mitochondrial genome sequence of A. californicus will contribute to future phylogenetic and taxonomic studies of genus Aegialites, family Salpingidae and superfamily Tenebrionoidea.

Keywords: Aegialites; Coleoptera; Complete mitochondrial genome.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the Natural History Museum, Oslo as part of Marianne Nilsen Haugen’s Phd-project. We received additional support by the Norwegian Metacenter for Computational Science (NOTUR; project numbers NN9408K & NS9408K).