Published as part of 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, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2843, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954

DESCRIPTION OF APILACTOBACILLUS APINORUM COMB. NOV. Apilactobacillus apinorum (a.pi.no’rum. N.L. gen. pl. n. apinorum of the Apini, referring to the isolation of 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. The type strain is Fhon13NT= DSM 26257 T = CCUG 63287 T. Genome sequence accession number: JXCT00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: JX099541.