Wigglesworthia

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Wigglesworthia f

1. 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