sp. nov., isolated from gut of the insect .

A taxonomic study of a Gram-stain-positive, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore-forming, catalase-negative bacterium, isolated from the gut of an insect, collected from the mountainous area of Seoraksan, Yangyang-gun, Republic of Korea, was conducted. Its 16S rRNA gene sequence showed high similarity values to LMG 24286 (95.9 %), 2L24P13 (95.9 %), M75 (95.7 %) and 257 (95.7 %). The phylogenetic tree indicated that the novel organism formed a cluster with LMG 24286, 2L24P13, M75 and 257. The G+C content was 41.1 mol% on the basis of the whole-genome sequence. Polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, two unidentified aminophospholipids, one unidentified phospholipid and four unidentified lipids. The major cellular fatty acids were C 9, C, C, summed feature 8 (Cω7 and/or Cω6) and summed feature 8 (C 7 and/or C 6). The cell-wall peptidoglycan was of A4 type with the interpeptide bridge of Gly-d-Glu. Based on these results, strain 26KH-42 could be classified as a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 26KH-42 (=KACC 18423=NBRC 113066).