Helicosporidium

Helicosporidium, protozoan parasite genus found in insects. It is the only genus of the cnidosporidian phylum Myxozoa (Myxosporidia). The young live in the body cavity, fat, or nervous tissue of the host insect. The life cycle, which is not fully known, includes a sexual period of multiple division followed by spore formation from uninucleate individuals.