The complete mitochondrial genome of the Hieroglyphus tonkinensis (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Hieroglyphus tonkinensis (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae) is an important agricultural pest to bamboo, rice and other gramineous crops. The complete mitochondrial genome of H. tonkinensis is 15,625 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 1 A + T-rich region. The gene order of the mitogenome is identical with most orthopteran insects. Most protein-coding genes start with typical ATN codon except for COX1, which initiates with ACC codon instead. While all PCGs use complete stop codons (TAA and TAG). In addition, 13 related species and 2 outgroup taxa were used to construct the phylogenetic tree to further validate the mitogenome of H. tonkinensis. The result showed that H. tonkinensis is sister group to a clade of Oxya and Pseudoxya.