Companilactobacillus metriopterae, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2806

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS METRIOPTERAE COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus metriopterae (me.tri.o.pte’rae. N.L. fem. gen. n. metriopterae of Metrioptera, the genus of grasshoppers from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus metriopterae Chiba et al. 2018, 1486 VP; the species includes strains previously described as Lactobacillus terrae Kim et al. 2018 [ 135, 136]

C. metriopterae forms an outgroup of Companilactobacillus and has the smallest genome size (1.50 Mbp) and mol% G+C content (32.8); it seems to transition to an insect associated lifestyle. C. metriopterae is pigmented and ferments fewer carbohydrates than other companilactobacilli.

Isolated from the gut of grasshopper Metrioptera engelhardti, other isolates were obtained from soil.

The type strain is Hime 5-1 T = JCM 31635 T = DSM 103730 T .

Genome sequence accession number: RSTD00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: LC190736 .