Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a single-stranded positive sense RNA virus that mainly infects honey bees (Apis mellifera) and can have devastating impacts on the colony. Recent studies have shown the presence of this virus in several species of Apis spp. and some other Hymenoptera, but our knowledge of their host range is very limited. We screened previously sequenced RNAseq libraries from different tissues of Vietnamese Walking Stick, Medauroidea extradentata (Phasmatodea) for DWV. We only found this virus in six libraries from anterior and posterior midgut tissue. From the midgut libraries we were able to construct a complete DWV genome sequence, which consisted of 10,140 nucleotides and included one open reading frame. Pairwise genome comparison confirmed strong similarity (98.89 %) of these assembled sequences with only 113 SNPs to the original DWV genome. We hypothesize the M. extradentata acquired this virus via a foodborne transmission by consuming DWV-infected material such as pollen or leaves contaminated with virus infected bee faeces.

变形翅病毒(DWV) 是一种单链正链 RNA 病毒，主要感染蜜蜂 (Apis mellifera)，并对蜂群造成破坏性影响。最近的研究表明，这种病毒存在于几种蜜蜂属中。和其他一些膜翅目，但我们对其寄主范围的了解非常有限。我们从越南手杖、Medauroidea extradentata的不同组织中筛选了先前测序的 RNAseq 文库(Phasmatodea) 用于 DWV。我们只在来自前部和后部中肠组织的六个文库中发现了这种病毒。从中肠文库中，我们能够构建完整的 DWV 基因组序列，该序列由 10,140 个核苷酸组成，并包含一个开放阅读框。成对基因组比较证实了这些组装序列与原始 DWV 基因组仅具有 113 个 SNP 的高度相似性 (98.89 %)。我们假设M. extradentata通过食用 DWV 感染的材料（如花粉或被病毒感染的蜜蜂粪便污染的叶子）通过食源性传播获得了这种病毒。