entomoplasma entomoplasma entomoplasma is a mollicute bacteria genus. entomoplasma freundtii (now a member of the genus williamsoniiplasma) can be isolated from the green tiger beetle (cicindela campestris, coleoptera: cicindelidae). entomoplasma scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: mycoplasmatota class: mollicutes order: entomoplasmatales family: entomoplasmataceae genus: entomoplasmatully et al. 1993 type species entomoplasma ellychniae(tully et al. 1989) tully et al. 1993 species "e. corruscae" e. ellychniae 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 "edwardiiplasma" mycoplasmataceae "tullyiplasma" williamsoniiplasma ♦ mycoplasma entomoplasmataceae mesoplasma entomoplasma "e. corruscae" (tully et al. 1994) gasparich & kuo 2019 e. ellychniae (tully et al. 1989) tully et al. 1993 mycoplasmatales "edwardiiplasma" williamsoniiplasma ♦ "tullyiplasma" mycoplasma mesoplasma entomoplasma ellychniae note: ♦ paraphyletic entomoplasma