First mitogenome of the family Putoidae (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) and its phylogenetic implications

By

Li, Yu-Ang
Zheng, Xinyi
Xu, Han
Wu, San-An

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-7-22

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1247

Pages

1--18

Subjects

Gene rearrangements , Mitogenome , molecular phylogeny , Putoidae , Scale insects , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1247.144896

 

Abstract

Scale insects are significant pests impacting agriculture, forestry, and ornamental plants. They play a dual role in ecosystems, serving as a food source for insects like bees, producing pigments and wax. Mitochondrial genomes have been widely utilized in phylogenetic studies. However, the mitogenomes of scale insects currently available in GenBank fail to adequately represent the majority of families. In this paper, the first complete mitogenome of Puto sinensis Zheng & Wu, 2025 is described, revealing previously unreported gene rearrangements in scale insects. It has a length of 18,830 bp and a high A+T content of 90.7%. Moreover, the phylogenetic analysis based on mitogenomic sequences shows that archaeococcoids are a paraphyletic group, with the family Putoidae being sister to all neococcoids – a finding consistent with results from nuclear gene and morphological data. This underscores the utility of mitochondrial genome data in reconstructing phylogenetic relationships within the infraorder Coccomorpha.