The first complete mitochondrial genome sequences of an ancient orphan evolutionary lineage of Eumolpinae leaf beetles endemic to the South Pacific

New mitogenomes from previously undersampled taxa contribute to an important, collective effort to populate mitogenome databases with an increasingly dense representation of the Tree-of-Life. It is crucial that these efforts are driven and supported by consolidated taxonomic expertise to guarantee the quality of results derived from these data. The availability of South Pacific Eumolpinae in the public mitogenome pool increases the likelihood of finding their missing link, if any, with other Eumolpini.