The genome sequence of the leafhopper, Arthaldeus pascuellus (Fallén, 1826) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Liam M Crowley; James McCulloch; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding Collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.25414.1

The genome sequence of the leafhopper, Arthaldeus pascuellus (Fallén, 1826) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Wellcome Open Res. 2026 Jan 6:11:17. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.25414.1. eCollection 2026.

Authors

Liam M Crowley¹, James McCulloch^{1

2}; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding Collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
² Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Arthaldeus pascuellus (leafhopper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera; Cicadellidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1 275.44 megabases. Most of the assembly (99.4%) is scaffolded into 9 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 20.4 kilobases. This assembly was generated as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, which produces reference genomes for eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland.

Keywords: Arthaldeus pascuellus; leafhopper; genome sequence; chromosomal; Hemiptera.