Table 3. Examples of clades formed by paleonumts from different orthopteran species.

Numt type	Family	Numt name	Ortholog AT%	NumtAT%	p-distance from ortholog	Age of MRCAbased on fossil data
COI-like numts	Eumastacidae	OR407_C039	0.676	0.678	0.410	145–163.5 MYA [77]
	Pyrgacrididae	OR317_C179	0.603	0.602	0.483	(Oldest Eumastacidae)
COII-like numts	Lentulidae	OR295_C020	0.742	0.521	0.490	98.7–108 MYA [75]
	Pamphagidae	OR151_C053	0.693	0.570	0.417	(Oldest Tridactylidae)
	Tridactylidae	OR153_C069	0.655	0.653	0.478
COII-like numts	Lentulidae	OR295_C011	0.742	0.636	0.432	33.9–38 MYA [76]
	Pamphagidae	OR151_C069	0.693	0.629	0.386	(Oldest Acridoidea)
ND5-like numts	Lentulidae	OR295_C207	0.781	0.756	0.434	182–201 MYA [74]
	Pamphagodidae	OR540_C135	0.725	0.728	0.521	(Oldest Prophalangopsidae)
	Pamphagodidae	OR540_C121	0.725	0.516	0.505
	Pneumoridae	OR293_C021	0.757	0.674	0.440
	Prophalangopsidae	OR021_C021	0.709	0.584	0.416
	Prophalangopsidae	OR021_C022	0.709	0.565	0.402

The recovery of these clades indicates that the nuclear insertion event probably occurred in the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of the species forming the clades. Numt name indicates the specific cloned sequence number used in the study, available in Table S3. Ortholog AT% indicates the base composition of the orthologous mtDNA sequence of the corresponding numt. Numt AT% is the base composition of the specific numts below to show how similar or different they are from the ortholog. p-distance from ortholog indicates the uncorrected p-distance of the numt sequence from the corresponding ortholog. In general, these paleonumts are highly divergent from the orthologs. Age of MRCA based on fossil data is determined from the oldest known fossil for particular clades, thus showing the maximum date of nuclear insertion.