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Most of the fire ants alien Solenopsis species, major pests of various horticulture crops. We have reported Solenopsis from crop fields and, through traditional taxonomy, these have been identified as Solenopsis geminata. The present investigation was performed to generate the DNA barcode of this species, for the elucidation of genetic structure collected from the Kalaburagi region. The generated DNA barcode of mitochondrial COI was deposited to the International Barcode of Life Database (BOLD: http://www.boldsystems.org). The barcode, along with its related information, are publicly available on the BOLD website with code MZ669889. It is the first such study from Kalaburagi region. Furthermore, DNA barcoding of fire ant's species accomplished from Maharashtra, Aurangabad (KC685060 & KC685063), Kerala, Malappuram (KP994543), Karnataka, Bangalore (KJ486555, KY000665 & JN886028) is in line with our findings. This study provides a detailed support for further wet lab study in support of traditional taxonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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