Wigglesworthia

Translingual

Etymology

From English Wigglesworth (“a surname”) (after British entomologist Vincent Wigglesworth) +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Wigglesworthia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Erwiniaceae – the single species Wigglesworthia glossinidia, a gram-negative bacterium and endosymbiont of tsetse flies.

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacterales - order; Erwiniaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Wigglesworthia glossinidia (species)
- Wigglesworthia glossinidia endosymbiont of Glossina brevipalpis (strain)

See also

Glossina

References

Wigglesworthia glossinidia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Wigglesworthia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Erwiniaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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