Table 1 Overview of data files/data sets

Data file 1

Transcriptome assemblies of five insect species

SRA, TSA files (.fastq, .fasta)

NCBI BioProjecthttps://identifiers.org/bioproject:PRJNA807498 [27]

Data file 2

RNA-seq of Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus

SRA file (.fastq)

NCBI Sequence Read Archivehttps://identifiers.org/insdc.sra:SRR18053996 [28]

Data file 3

RNA-seq of Ceutorhynchus napi

SRA file (.fastq)

NCBI Sequence Read Archivehttps://identifiers.org/insdc.sra:SRR18053995 [29]

Data file 4

RNA-seq of Psylliodes chrysocephala

SRA file (.fastq)

NCBI Sequence Read Archivehttps://identifiers.org/insdc.sra:SRR18053993 [30]

Data file 5

RNA-seq of Brassicogethes aeneus

SRA file (.fastq)

NCBI Sequence Read Archivehttps://identifiers.org/insdc.sra:SRR18053994 [31]

Data file 6

RNA-seq of Dasineura brassicae

SRA file (.fastq)

NCBI Sequence Read Archivehttps://identifiers.org/insdc.sra:SRR18053992 [32]

Data file 7

Table 1 Transcriptome assembly statistics for larvae of Brassica napus pest insects

Document file (.docx)

Figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19705516.v2 [33]

Data file 8

Table 2 Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologues (BUSCO) analysis on transcriptome assemblies of larvae of Brassica napus pest insects

Document file (.docx)

Figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19705513.v1 [34]

Data file 9

Annotation reports

Speadsheet (.xlsx)

Figshare,

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21758303 [35]