Table 1.

Genome assembly statistics

Species	Number of fragments	Total size of the assembly (Mb)	N50 (kb)	Ns (%)	Complete BUSCO (duplicated)a
S. nonagrioides	2,553	1,021	1,105	0.001	98.2% (2.7%)
T. ni	601	339	894	0	94.3% (1.5%)
S. litura	2,974	438	13,592	2.488	99.1% (0.5%)
S.exigua	301	446	14,363	0.075	98.1% (1.2%)
S. frugiperda	37,235	358	54	7.732	86.3% (1.2%)
H. armigera	997	337	1,000	11.009	98.3% (0.3%)
H. zea	2,975	341	201	10.184	96.6% (0.8%)

^aLepidoptera core genes (n = 5,286)