Gene order for protein-coding and rRNA genes was conserved between these two species and also identical to that of A. vulgare and other terrestrial isopods (Marcadé et al. 2007; Kilpert et al. 2012) (Figure 1). The positioning of putative tRNA genes, however, was more variable between the two species (Figure 1). As a whole, the mitochondrial genomes of the two species displayed ∼72% sequence identity when aligned by ClustalW2 (Larkin et al. 2007). The assembled sequences and annotations have been deposited in GenBank under accession numbers KR013001 and KR013002.