DESCRIPTIONOF BOMBILACTOBACILLUS BOMBI COMB. NOV.

Bombilactobacillus bombi (bom’bi. L. masc. n. bombus, buzzing of bees and Bombus, N.L. gen. n. bombi of Bombus, of a bumblebee).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bombi Killer et al. 2014, 2615 VP

Description provided by [113]; compared toother bombilactobacilli, B. bombi ferments a wider range of carbohydrates.

The genome size is 1.84 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.7.

Isolated from the digestive tract of laboratory-reared bumblebee queens ( Bombus terrestris).

Thetypestrainis BTLCH M1/2 T =DSM 26517 T =CCM 8440 T.

Genome sequence accession number: CP031513 (strain BI-2.5; the genome sequence for the type strain is not available).

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: KJ078643.