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Genus Simulium

noun
1.
Type genus of the Simuliidae: blackflies.  Synonym: Simulium.






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... and more uniform. During several days, and particularly since we had left the Mission of Arichuna, we had suffered cruelly from the stings of insects, which covered our faces and hands. They were not mosquitos, which have the appearance of little flies, or of the genus Simulium, but zancudos, which are really gnats, though very different from our European species.* (* M. Latreille has discovered that the mosquitos of South Carolina are of the genus Simulium (Atractocera meigen.) These ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt



Words linked to "Genus Simulium" :   family Simuliidae, Simuliidae, Simulium, buffalo gnat, black fly, arthropod genus, blackfly



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