DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS QUENUIAE COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus quenuiae (que.nu’i.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. quenuiae, named in recognition of Cécile Plateaux-Quénu’s contributions to the biology of bees).

Basonym: Lactobacillus quenuiae Frederick et al. 2018, 1884 VP

Adescriptionof the speices isprovided in [324]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.58 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 30.3.

Isolated as part of thecore microbiomeof wild bees and from flowers.

Thetypestrainis HV_6 T =DSM 104127 T =NRRL B-65474 T.

Genome sequence accession number: POSN00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KX656667.