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The genome sequence of an ichneumonid wasp, Polytribax perspicillator (Gravenhorst, 1807)
Gavin R Broad1, Liam M Crowley2, Inez Januszczak1
1Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|April 24, 2025
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a male Polytribax perspicillator (ichneumonid wasp; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 314.21 megabases. Most of the assembly (99.94%) is scaffolded into 8 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 25.68 kilobases in length.
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