Name: "Candidatus Arsenophonus triatominarum" Hypša and Dale 1997

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: tri’a.to’min.a.rum. N.L. fem. pl. n. Triatominae, subfamily of reduviid bugs; N.L. gen. fem. pl. n. triatominarum, of the Triatominae

Gender: masculine

Type strain: intracellular endosymbiont from T. infestans

16S rRNA gene: U91786 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hypsa V, Dale C. In vitro culture and phylogenetic analysis of "Candidatus Arsenophonus triatominarum," an intracellular bacterium from the triatomine bug, Triatoma infestans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1140-1144.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The 16S rDNA sequence analysis and preliminary morphological characterization suggest that this bacterium is a member of the genus Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991. As the phenotypic tests required for its valid description could not be performed, the authors propose the provisional status of Candidatus. Publication: Gherna RL, Werren JH, Weisburg W, Cote R, Woese CR, Mandelco L, Brenner DJ. Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of the son-killer trait in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:563-565.

Parent taxon: Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991

Assigned by: Hypsa V, Dale C. In vitro culture and phylogenetic analysis of "Candidatus Arsenophonus triatominarum," an intracellular bacterium from the triatomine bug, Triatoma infestans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1140-1144.

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