Libelloides sibiricus
(Eversmann,
1850
) is widely distributed in China, Korea and eastern Russia. To date, few studies have been conducted on this species, with the exception of morphological taxonomy studies. In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of
Libelloides sibiricus
, which is 15,811 bp in length, with an overall A + T content of 74.8%, encoding 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, and a control region. The gene arrangement and components of
L. sibiricus
are identical to those of most other Neuropteran species. TAA is utilized as the termination codon for most PCGs and TAG for
nd1
, however,
nd6
and
atp6
used the incomplete termination codon TA- and
cox1
,
cox2
,
nd5
,
cytb
had termination codons consisting of only T–. In addition, we selected all known 59 species of Neuroptera from NCBI, and used
Sialis hamata
,
Sialis melania
,
Sialis longidens
and
Sialis jiyuni
(Megaloptera: Sialidae) as the outgroup. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the mitogenome of
L. sibiricus
was the most closely related to
L. macaronius
and all the owlflies formed the monophyletic group within the superfamily Myrmeleontoidea.