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In this study, we first sequenced the <jats:italic>Frontopsylla diqingensis<\/jats:italic> mitogenome and performed comparative mitogenomic analyses with the two other species (<jats:italic>Frontopsylla spadix<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Paradoxopsyllus custodis<\/jats:italic>) in Amphipsyllinae available in the NCBI database. The evolutionary process of Amphipsyllinae was comprehensively analyzed in terms of nucleotide composition, codon usage, nucleotide diversity, tRNA secondary structure, nucleotide skew, phylogeny tree, and divergence time. Nucleotide diversity and tRNAs of three species of fleas of Amphipsyllinae have differences among different species. The effective number of codon (ENC)-plot, neutrality curve, PR2, and correspondence analysis (COA) showed that the codon preference of Amphipsyllinae was influenced mainly by natural selection. For phylogenetic trees and divergence time of the order Siphonaptera, our results showed two concatenated data matrices, namely, PCG: (((Ceratophyllidae + Leptopsyllidae)\u202f+\u202f((Vermipsyllidae + Hystrichopsyllidae)\u202f+\u202fCtenophthalmidae))\u202f+\u202f(Pulicidae + Pygiopsyllidae)); PCGRNA: ((((Ceratophyllidae + Leptopsyllidae)\u202f+\u202f((Vermipsyllidae + Hystrichopsyllidae)\u202f+\u202fCtenophthalmidae))\u202f+\u202fPulicidae)\u202f+\u202fPygiopsyllidae). We concluded that <jats:italic>P. custodis<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Macrostylophora euteles<\/jats:italic> from GenBank are the same species by phylogenetic trees and sequence alignment, and supported the monophyly of Amphipsyllinae. Amphipsyllinae diverged in the Cenozoic, approximately 73.37\u201340.32 million years ago (Mya). The majority of the species within the intraordinal divergence into extant lineages occurred after the K-Pg boundary. The common ancestor of the extant order Siphonaptera diverged during the Cretaceous. Our findings supported those of Zhu et al. (1). 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