Table 3 Range of percentage similarity for each species BLAST-analyzed against the BOLD database.

From: Molecular identification of wild caught phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) by mitochondrial DNA barcoding in India

Species names (No. of sequences)

No. of Genbank Sequences (Country name)

BOLD (Range of % similarity)

Gr. indica (6)

1 (Algeria)

91.96–93.26$

Id. tubifer (3)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Ph. ajithii (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Ph. argentipes (8)

3 (Sri Lanka, Nepal & India)

100-99.82

Ph. burneyi (6)

First submission in GenBank

 

Ph. colabaensis (7)

1 (India)

100-99.82

Ph. longiductus (9)

3 (Bhutan, China, India)

97.18

Ph. major (10)

4 (Aizerbaijan, Bhutan, Turkey, Nepal)

99.29–94.18

Ph. papatasi (21)

16 (Uzbekistan, Nepal, Hungary, Austria, Iraq, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Romania, India, Serbia, Spain, Ethiopia)

99.65–98.94

Ph. sergenti (18)

12 (Uzbekistan, Spain, Iraq, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Aizerbaijan, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, India, Algeria)

98.48–98.05

Ph. stantoni (9)

3 (China, Thailand, Singapore)

100-87.06

Se. africana (9)

3 (Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana)

99.47

Se. ashwanii (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. babu babu (10)

3 (Nepal, Iraq, Pakistan)

100 to 98.56

Se. baghdadis (6)

Ambiguous bases or short sequence (< 500 bp)

100-98.94

Se. bailyi (12)

6 (India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka)

99.82–90.3

Se. christophersi (8)

2 (Algeria & Cameroon)

100-99.47

Se. clydei (11)

5 (Algeria, Mali, Afghanistan, India, Kenya)

98.94–97.7

Se. dhandai (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. eadithae (4)

1*(India)

NA

Se. himalayensis (5)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. insularis (7)

1(Sri Lanka)

98.92

Se. jerighatiansis (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. kauli (2)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. linearis (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. modii (2)

Ambiguous bases or short sequence (< 500 bp)

NA

Se. monticola (6)

First submission in GenBank

NA

Se. punjabensis (10)

3 (Nepal, India, Sri Lanka)

100-96.65

Se. shorttii (8)

1 (India)

100-97.35

Se. zeylanica (8)

Ambiguous bases or short sequence (< 500 bp)

NA

  1. $BOLD database showed high similarity with Se. punjabensis (99.47 to 98.4).
  2. *Genbank sequence matched with Ph. papatasi, so removed from further analysis.
  3. NA: Not Applicable.