“…In these cases, the Rickettsia bacterium is inherited by ovarial transmission through host generations with a high fidelity, is detected in host populations at a considerable frequency, and can be regarded as a facultative endosymbiotic associate (9,44). Thus far, such Rickettsia symbionts have been identified from a wide variety of invertebrates such as ladybird beetles (19,43,46), an aphid (6), a leafhopper (10), a bruchid beetle (13), ticks (2,30), leeches (21), and others.…”