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However, the phylogenetic relationships within this family remain poorly resolved, and publicly available mitochondrial genome data remain limited. In this study, we employed high-throughput sequencing to determine and report for the first time the complete mitogenomes of four carabid species\u2014Poecilus fortipes (Chaudoir, 1850) and Poecilus gebleri (Dejean, 1828) from the subfamily Pterostichinae, and Pristosia nitidula (A. Morawitz, 1862) and Cephalosdrophus marinae (Lassalle &amp; Marcilhac, 1999) from the subfamily Platyninae\u2014as well as to resequence Carabus brandti Faldermann, 1835 from the subfamily Carabinae. Using 124 carabid mitochondrial genome sequences obtained from NCBI, this study reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships among 21 subfamilies within Carabidae. The results showed that the sizes of mitochondrial genomes ranged from 15,800 to 17,352\u2009bp in length and contained 37 typical genes and a control region. Combined with previously reported mitogenomic data, we found all protein-coding genes (PCGs) initiated with standard start codons ATN or TTG and ended with TAN or an incomplete stop codon single T. Evolutionary rate analysis (Ka\/Ks) revealed ATP8 was the fastest-evolving gene, whereas COX1 was the slowest. Except for tRNA-Ser (AGN), whose DHU arm simply formed a loop, and tRNA-Phe (C. marinae), whose T\u03a8C loop was absent, the rest of the tRNA sequences could be folded into a typical cloverleaf secondary structure. Our results suggest that the phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of Cicindelinae remain unresolved, with alternative placements recovered depending on the dataset analyzed. The monophyly of most carabid subfamilies was confirmed, with the exception of Brachininae, Trechinae, Licininae, and Platyninae. The findings of this study provide valuable insights into carabid phylogeny. 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