Midichloriaceae

{{Short description|Family of bacteria}}

{{Taxobox

| color = lightgrey

| name = Candidatus Midichloriaceae

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Alphaproteobacteria

| ordo = Rickettsiales

| familia = Candidatus Midichloriaceae

| familia_authority = Montagna et al. 2013{{cite journal |vauthors=Montagna M, Sassera D, Epis S, Bazzocchi C, Vannini C, Lo N, Sacchi L, Fukatsu T, Petroni G, Bandi C | title = "Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria | journal = Appl Environ Microbiol | year = 2013 | volume = 79 | issue = 10 | pages = 3241–3248| doi = 10.1128/AEM.03971-12 | pmid = 23503305 | pmc = 3685259 | bibcode = 2013ApEnM..79.3241M }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera{{cite web|vauthors=Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/midichloriaceae |title=Midichloriaceae |access-date=June 1, 2021 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}

| subdivision =

• "Candidatus Aquirickettsia" corrig. Klinges et al. 2019

• "Candidatus Bandiella" Senra et al. 2016
• "Candidatus Cyrtobacter" Vannini et al. 2010
• "Candidatus Defluviella" Boscaro et al. 2013
• "Candidatus Fokinia" Szokoli et al. 2016

• "Candidatus Grelliella" corrig. Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2019
• "Candidatus Jidaibacter" Schulz et al. 2016
• "Candidatus Midichloria" Sassera et al. 2006

}}

"Candidatus" Midichloriaceae is a family of bacteria, included in the order Rickettsiales. No member of this family has been cultured in the laboratory, so the entire family has been given the status candidatus.