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Table 1 Summary of bacterial species isolated from the guts of various insects feeding on plants

From: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the guts of insects feeding on plants: prospects for discovering plant-derived antibiotics

 

Phylum

Insect species

Actinobacteria

Bacteroidetes

Firmicutes

Proteobacteria

Giant Line Green Stick insect (Diaphroedes gigantea)

Microbacterium oxydans

Sphingobacterium multivorum

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

 

Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)

Sanguibacter keddieii

  

Raoultella terrigena

Cinnabar moth

(Tyria jacobeae)

Kocuria rhizophila

 

Bacillus licheniformis,

Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus warneri

Burkholderia fungorum

Rosemary beetle (Chrysolina americana)

Microbacterium foliorum, Microbacterium gubbeenense,

Rhodococcus erythropolis

 

Staphylococcus epidermidis

Pantoea agglomerans

Death’s-head Hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos)

   

Enterobacter asburiae,

Pseudomonas putida, Roultella terrigena

Beet Armyworm (Spodoptera exigua)

Microbacterium paraoxydans

 

Bacillus aquimaris,

Bacillus vietnamensis

Rhizobium pusense