acidilobus acidilobus in taxonomy, acidilobus is a genus of the acidilobaceae. acidilobus scientific classification domain: archaea kingdom: proteoarchaeota superphylum: tack group phylum: thermoproteota class: thermoprotei order: sulfolobales family: acidilobaceae genus: acidilobusprokofeva, miroshnichenko, kostrikina, chernyh, kuznetsov, tourova & bonch-osmolovskaya, 2000 type species acidilobus aceticusprokofeva et al. 2000 species a. aceticus a. saccharovorans "a. sulfurireducens"