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The genome sequence of the Orange Sallow moth, Tiliacea citrago Linnaeus, 1758
Liam M Crowley1, Lily V M Lewis2,
1Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|January 5, 2026
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Tiliacea citrago (Orange Sallow; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 800.96 megabases. Most of the assembly (98.57%) is scaffolded into 32 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.37 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 13,275 protein-coding genes.
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