Csas, Carposina sasakii ; Cpom, Cydiapomonella ; Tni, Trichoplusia ni ; Bmor,Bombyx mori ; Slit, Spodoptera litura ; Mcin,Melitaea cinxia ; Hmel, Heliconius melpomene ; * A represents auto chromosome; Z and W represent sex chromosomes; NA, not available. Data for all species except for Csas were summarized by Wan et al. (2019).

Table 2 Number of genes in five detoxification families across species of Lepidoptera