Further field studies in the mid-1990s following their findings, led to the belief that Kneallhazia solenopsae could be used as a biological control agent to try to address the devastating impact of the imported fire ant.
In 2008, Sokolova and Fuxa referred to newer molecular, morphological and life-cycle data and proposed that it be renamed in a new combination in a new genus.
Kneallhazia solenopsae has a life cycle that is almost perfectly adapted to the parasitization of fire ant colonies.
Unlike other microsporidial pathogens of social hymenopterans, K. solenopsae infects all castes and stages of the host.
Kneallhazia solenopsae produces four types of spores and the most common of these, the octospore, can be detected with a microscope.