paraburkholderia insulsa paraburkholderia insulsa paraburkholderia insulsa is a gram-negative, acidophilic, rod-shaped, arsenic-tolerant and aerobic bacterium from the genus of burkholderia which has been isolated from the ambitle island on papua new guinea. paraburkholderia insulsa scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: burkholderiaceae genus: paraburkholderia species: p. insulsa binomial name paraburkholderia insulsa(rusch et al. 2015) dobritsa and samadpour 2016 type strain dsm 28142t lmg 28183t synonyms burkholderia insulsa rusch et al. 2015 "burkholderia papuensis"