See text Densovirinae[1] is a subfamily of single-stranded DNA viruses in the family Parvoviridae.

[4] Densoviruses are known to infect members of insect orders Blattodea, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera, while some viruses infect and multiply in crustaceans such as shrimp or crayfish, or sea stars from phylum Echinodermata.

Each copy has a shape described as a "quadrilateral 'kite-shaped' wedge", and the appearance of the surface is rough with many small projections.

If a third open reading frame is present (depends on the genus) it encodes a second non structural protein.

The proteins that contain these motifs bind to the viral origins of replication and unwind and nick these origins, allowing access by the host's proteins to the viral genome for replication and transcription.