“…Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used as molecular markers to elucidate genetic diversity in several species (Hebert et al, 2003;Castalanelli et al, 2011;Goldstien et al, 2011;Valmorbida et al, 2019;Machado et al, 2020a;Perini et al, 2020). The cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene allows species identification due to its unique genetic signature and can be used in phylogenetic analysis (Wu et al, 2017;Torres-Vila and Bonal, 2018;Wang et al, 2019).…”