Complete mitochondrial genome of Gynaikothrips ficorum (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal 1908) is a major pest of bonsai ficus and poses a considerableeconomic threat to gardening industry. The mitochondrial genome of G. ficorum was sequencedand annotated in this study. Its whole mitogenome was 15,313 bp in length, including 37 typicalgenes in animal mitogenomes. ATN was used as start codon in most of the PCGs except for nad4l,which used TTG. Except atp8 and atp6 were ended with an incomplete T and TAG, respectively,the others used TAA as termination codons. A phylogenetic tree based on complete mitochondrialgenomes of 17 species (15 Thysanoptera species and two outgroups) showed that the monophylyof Phlaeothripidae was supported and G. ficorum and G. uzeli formed a sister group.