The Iflaviridae are a family of Group IV (positive-sense ssRNA)

RNA virus

An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA as its genetic material. This nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA but may be double-stranded RNA...

 insect

Insect

Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

-infecting virus

Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...

es. Some of the insects commonly infected by dicistroviruses include aphids, leafhoppers, flies

Fließ

Fließ is a municipality in the Landeck district and is located5 km south of Landeck on the upper course of the Inn River. It has 9 hamlets and was already populated at the roman age; the village itself was founded around the 6th century. After a conflagration in 1933 Fließ was restored more...

, bees, ants, silkworms, wasps.

The type species is Infectious flacherie virus.

Description

Members of this family are insect infecting viruses that consist of positive single strand RNA genomes translated into a single polyprotein of ~3000 amino acids long.