Meeran Hussain, Rebecca Funari, Nicolas Diercksens, Elahe Parvizi, Mark R McNeill, Angela McGaughran
We report the first complete mitochondrial genome of Microctonus aethiopoides (Loan, 1975) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), assembled using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing data. The circular mitogenome is 33,173 bp long and contains 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, and 2 rRNAs) along with a large A + T-rich control region. It exhibits a strong AT bias (85.42%) and a unique tRNA gene arrangement, whereas protein-coding genes remain conserved across Braconidae. Phylogenetic analysis places M. aethiopoides within Euphorinae. This mitogenome offers a valuable genetic resource for future evolutionary and ecological studies and improves understanding of mitogenome evolution and gene rearrangements within Braconidae.