DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS APINORUM COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus apinorum (a.pi.no’rum. N.L. gen. pl. n. apinorum of the Apini, referring to the isolationof this species from several species of honey bees).

Basonym: Lactobacillus apinorum Olofsson et al. 2014, 3113 VP

Growth is observed at anaerobic conditions in the range of 15–50°C and pH 3.0–12.0 [89]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.36 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.9.

Isolated from honey stomach of the honeybee.

Thetypestrainis Fhon13NT=DSM 26257 T = CCUG 63287 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JXCT00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JX099541.