Table 2.

Lepidopteran mt genome sequences used in this study.

Species	Superfamily and family		GenBank acc. no.	References
Hyphantria cunea	Noctuoidea	Arctiidae	NC_014058	[22]
Lymantria dispar		Lymantriidae	NC_012893	[23]
Helicoverpa armigera		Noctuidae	NC_014668	[24]
Ochrogaster lunifer		Notodontidae	NC_011128	[16]
Phalera flavescens		Notodontidae	JF440342	(Sun et al., unpublished)
Phthonandria atrilineata	Geometroidea	Geometridae	NC_010522	[18]
Spilonota lechriaspis	Tortricoidea	Tortricidae	NC_014294	[25]
Adoxophyes honmai		Tortricidae	NC_008141	[14]
Grapholita molesta		Tortricidae	NC_014806	[26]
Antheraea pernyi	Bombycoidea	Saturniidae	NC_004622	[15]
Antheraea yamamai		Saturniidae	NC_012739	[20]
Eriogyna pyretorum		Saturniidae	NC_012727	[19]
Caligula boisduvalii		Saturniidae	NC_010613	[21]
Chinese Bombyx mandarina		Bombycidae	AY301620	[27]
Bombyx mandarina		Bombycidae	NC_003395	[13]
Bombyx mori		Bombycidae	NC_002355	[13]
Manduca sexta		Sphingidae	NC_010266	[17]
Diatraea saccharalis	Pyraloidea	Crambidae	NC_013274	[28]
Ostrinia furnacalis		Crambidae	NC_003368	[29]
Ostrinia nubilalis		Crambidae	NC_003367	[29]
Eumenis autonoe	Papilionoidea	Nymphalidae	NC_014587	[11]
Acraea issoria		Nymphalidae	GQ376195	[9]
Sasakia charonda kuriyamaensis		Nymphalidae	NC_014223	(Hakozaki et al., unpublished)
Argyreus hyperbius		Nymphalidae	JF439070	[30]
Calinaga  davidis		Nymphalidae	HQ658143	[12]
Papilio maraho		Papilionidae	NC_014055	[31]
Parnassius bremeri		Papilionidae	NC_014053	[8]
Teinopalpus aureus		Papilionidae	NC_014398	(Qin et al., unpublished)
Troides aeacus		Papilionidae	EU625344	(Jiang et al., unpublished)
Coreana raphaelis		Lycaenidae	NC_007976	[6]
Pieris raphaelis		Pieridae	HM156697	[10]
Ctenoptilum vasava	Hesperoidea	Hesperiidae	JF713818	This study