Phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the orange-winged sulphur butterfly Mell 1913 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae).

Mell 1913 (Pieridae) is a little-studied butterfly species endemic to China that flies primarily in the forest canopy. Genome skimming by Illumina sequencing allowed assembly of 146,702 reads for complete 1471.3-fold mean coverage of the circular 15,264 bp mitogenome from consisting of 82.