We present a genome assembly from an individual male Carterocephalus palaemon (the Arctic Skipper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae).The genome sequence is 394.5 megabases in span.The whole Chips assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome.
The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is Vanity Mirror 15.78 kilobases in length.Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 17,032 protein coding genes.