simuliumn.
/sɪˈmjʊlɪəm/ A small dark-coloured blood-sucking fly of the genus Simulium, which may be the vector of certain diseases. Also collective. Cf. buffalo fly n. at buffalo n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Simuliidae > member of genus Simulium
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1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 120 Simulium larvae frequent well aerated and frequently swiftly running streams.
1914 G. D. H. Carpenter Jrnl. 26 July in Naturalist on Lake Victoria (1920) iv. 80 I went down to the rocky shore before breakfast, and was set upon by a swarm of viciously biting Simulium.
1932 Riley & Johannsen Med. Entomol. xviii. 292 The Simulium flies abound in hilly regions of swift-flowing, well-aerated water.
1955 Times 8 July 9/7 The disease [sc. river blindness]..is caused by the bite of the simulium fly.
1977 Observer 6 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 47/1 The agile simulium can fly twice as far as was previously thought possible.
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