The smudged eighty-eight butterfly
Diaethria gabaza eupepla
(Salvin & Godman, 1868) (Nymphalidae) is a vividly colored aposematic butterfly from Central and South America. A complete circular mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of 15,156 bp from
D. gabaza eupepla
was assembled from a genome skimming Illumina sequence library. The AT-rich (80.5% AT) mitogenome consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs, and a control region in the typical butterfly gene order.
Diaethria gabaza eupepla COX1
begins with an atypical CGA start codon and
ATP6, COX1
,
COX2, CYTB, ND1, ND4, ND4L
, and
ND5
mRNAs contain incomplete stop codons completed by the addition of 3’ A residues. Phylogenetic reconstruction places
Diaethria
as the sister clade to
Hamadryas
within monophyletic nymphalid subfamily Biblidinae, consistent with previous phylogenetic hypotheses.