The larval, pupal and mitogenomic characteristics of Agrilus adelphinus Kerremans, 1895 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from China

In this study, the larva and pupa of Agrilus adelphinus are described illustrated. DNA barcoding ( COI gene) was used to associate larval pupal stages with adults based on maximum-likelihood method. resulting phylogenetic tree, species from same species-group were found be clustered a branch high support value. To better understand A. , complete mitochondrial genome also sequenced annotated. Comparing known mitogenomes species, newly is shorter, 15,732 bp. However, its whole mitogenome composition gene orientation consistent that most Buprestidae. ATGATAG sequence observed between ATP8 ATP6 which ATGATAA in other insect mitogenomes. Leu2, Phe, Ile, Gly, Ser2 five frequently encoded amino acids. The results further prove can remove limitation traditional taxonomy cannot identify all developmental stages. This study provides valuable molecular morphological data for identification analyses genus .