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In this study, we developed a structure-based approach to identify Helitrons in four lepidopterans and systematically analyzed Helitrons in the silkworm genome.We found that the content of Helitrons varied greatly among genomes.The silkworm genome harbored 67,555 Helitron-related sequences that could be classified into 21 families and accounted for ~4.23% of the genome.Thirteen of the families were new.