History of the taxon:
Etymology of the name:
Taxon: Autographiviridae; Proposal: 2019.103B.A.v1.Autographiviridae; : ; ICTV Report: ; Reference:
from the Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós), meaning "self" and γρᾰ́φειν (gráphein) meaning "to carve" referring to "self-writing” or “self-transcribing” bacterial viruses in the family that encode a large single subunit RNA polymerase; the suffix -viridae for family taxa