mesoplasma mesoplasma mesoplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the class mollicutes. mesoplasma is related to the genus mycoplasma but differ in several respects. mesomoplasma scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: mycoplasmatota class: mollicutes order: entomoplasmatales family: entomoplasmataceae genus: mesoplasmatully et al. 1993 type species mesoplasma flora(mccoy et al. 1984) tully et al. 1993 species m. chauliocola m. coleopterae m. entomophilum m. flora m. grammopterae m. melaleucae m. tabanidae phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 m. chauliocola m. coleopterae m. tabanidae m. entomophilum m. grammopterae m. flora m. chauliocola tully et al. 1994 m. melaleucae (tully et al. 1990) gupta, son & oren 2019 m. flora (mccoy et al. 1984) tully et al. 1993 m. grammopterae tully et al. 1994 m. tabanidae tully et al. 1994 m. coleopterae tully et al. 1994 m. entomophilum (tully et al. 1988) tully et al. 1993