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Subgenus of flies For Nunezia caroloameghinoi, a fossil species of Giant anteater, see Giant anteater.

Nunezia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Wyeomyia
Subgenus: Nunezia
Dyar 1928

Nunezia is a subgenus of the mosquito genus Wyeomyia. It was named to honor the Venezuelan entomologist Manuel Núñez Tovar.

The type species is Wyeomyia bicornis (Root, 1928). The subgenus includes the species bicornis (Root), lateralis Petrocchi, and paucartamboensis Porter.

References

  1. ^ Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit: "Culicidae » Culicinae » Sabethini » Wyeomyia » Subgenus Nunezia Dyar" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=181, accessed August 5, 2017.
  2. H. G. Dyar: The mosquitoes of the Americas. Publication No. 387, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1928.
Taxon identifiers
Nunezia


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