“…Moreover, even though it has been suggested that they could affect plants (Taffner et al, ), which would in turn affect pest insects, there is scant information on their importance and the roles they play in these hosts (Gurung, Wertheim, & Falcao Salles, ). Until very recently, methanogenic and non‐methanogenic Archaea from Phylum Euryarchaeota had only been reported in the hindguts of methane producing arthropods—beetles, cockroaches, termites, and millipedes—where there is limited oxygen availability (Brune, ; Egert et al, ; Hara, Shinzato, Seo, Oshima, & Yamagishi, ; Shinzato, Matsumoto, Yamaoka, Oshima, & Yamagishi, ; Šustr, Chroňáková, Semanová, Tajovský, & Šimek, ; Tinker & Ottesen, ). Nevertheless, a shotgun metagenomic analysis of the gut content of P. xylostella larvae identified Euryarchaeota DNA in very low proportions (Xia et al, ).…”