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 MICHENERI COMB. NOV. Apilactobacillus micheneri (mi.che’ne.ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. micheneri named in honor of Charles D. Michener‘s contributions to the study of bees in natural habitats). Basonym: Lactobacillus micheneri McFrederick et al. 2018, 1993 VP Major physiological properties are shared with A. timberlakei and A. quenuiae [324]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.46 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 30.3. Isolated from bees and flowers. The type strain is Hlig3 T = DSM 104126 T = NRRL B-65473 T. Genome sequence accession number: POSO00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: KT833121.