Repetitive element analysis predicted that 64% of the genome comprises repeat sequences, of which 15.9% and 8.4% are within introns and exons, respectively. About a quarter (23.9%) of repetitive elements were classified in the unknown zone. Like most eukaryotes, transposable elements (TEs) were most commonly long terminal repeats (LTR) retrotransposons (9.3%), with Gypsy‐like elements as the most frequently classified retrotransposons. Other TEs such as DNA, rolling circle (RC) and non‐LTR long retrotransposons such as long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) and short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) comprised a relatively small proportion (2.2% and 1.9%, respectively) (Figure 2; Table S3). Non‐coding RNA was estimated to comprise 0.12% of the genome, the majority being ribosomal RNA (0.02%) and transfer RNA (0.01%), with predicted snRNA and miRNA representing 0.01% and 0.07%, respectively (Table S4).