The mitochondrial genome of Hercostomus brevipilosus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

Abstract

The long-legged fly Hercostomus brevipilosus (Genbank accession number: MN840034) belongs to the subfamily Dolichopodinae of Dolichopodidae. The mitogenome of H. brevipilosus was sequenced, the first representative of the mitogenome of the genus Hercostomus. The mitogenome is 15,019 bp totally, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs and 22 transfer RNAs. All genes have similar locations and strands with that of other published species of Dolichopodidae. The nucleotide composition biases toward A and T, which together made up 73.9％ of the entirety. Bayesian inference analysis strongly supported the monophyly of Dolichopodidae and Dolichopodinae. It suggested that Hercostomus is the sister group of Dolichopus. ARTICLE HISTORY

The mitochondrial genome of Lichtwardtia dentalis Zhang, Masunaga et Yang, 2009 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

“…The nearly complete mitochondrial genome of L. dentalis is 15,124 bp in length, with an A þ T content of 73.9% (GenBank accession number: MW526994). It contains all 37 typical insect mitogenomic genes, but we could not get the complete control region sequence because it is particularly difficult to characterize considering the variable sequence and high AT contents of the control region (Wang et al 2016;Hou et al 2019;Qilemoge et al 2020;Wang et al 2021). All genes have similar locations with that of other published Dolichopodidae mitogenomes.…”