simuliotoxicosis

simuliotoxicosis

English

Noun

simuliotoxicosis (uncountable)

1. Toxicosis caused by the presence of black flies of the genus Simulium.
   • 2016 January 26, “Cryptic Biodiversity and the Origins of Pest Status Revealed in the Macrogenome of Simulium colombaschense (Diptera: Simuliidae), History’s Most Destructive Black Fly”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147673:

     Of the nine big-river species in the clade, which have not caused simuliotoxicosis, at least three (S. cholodkovskii, S. jenningsi Malloch, and S. penobscotense Snoddy & Bauer) are major, but nonlethal, annoyance pests of humans and domesticated animals.