Simulium /Si·mu·li·um/ (sĭ-mu´le-um) a genus of biting gnats; some species are intermediate hosts of Onchocerca volvulus.
Si·mu·li·um (s -my  l - m)n. A genus of biting gnats or midges of the family Simuliidae that includes various species that transmit the causative agent of human onchocerciasis. |
Simulium
a genus of insects in the family Simuliidae causing insect worry with livestock. Cutaneous lesions may include vesicles and wart-like papules, and edema and petechiation of thin-skinned, ventral areas. Poultry may be affected by anemia. The species also transmits a number of animal diseases including the viruses of vesicular stomatitis and eastern equine encephalomyelitis, the protozoa, Leucocytozoon and Haemoproteus spp., and are intermediate parasites for some Onchocerca spp. Called also black fly, buffalo gnat.
There are a large number of species distinguished largely by their geographic distribution: Simulium arcticum, S. callidum, S. columbaczense, S. damnosum, S. erythrocephalum, S. indicum, S. metallicum, S. neavei, S. ochraceum, S. ornatum, S. pecuarum, S. rugglesi, S. venustum.
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