Family: Inseviridae

Genus: Insevirus

Distinguishing features

As there is only one genus in the family, the distinguishing features correspond to the family description.

Species demarcation criteria

1) The host species for the virus must be assigned convincingly.

2) For viral genome sequences assembled from high-throughput sequencing reads, and not validated in full by Sanger sequencing, read numbers, RPKM values, and/or coverage depth values for the assembled sequence must be specified, or the read data must be available at NCBI such that these values can be determined.

3) Virus genome sequences that share <70% RdRP amino acid sequence identity will be considered to represent different virus species regardless of whether reported from the same or different host species.

4) Virus genome sequences that share 70% RdRP amino acid sequence identity, but are reported from different host species, are considered to represent the same virus species.