Nunezia
| Nunezia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Wyeomyia |
| Subgenus: | Nunezia Dyar, 1928 |
Nunezia is a subgenus of the mosquito genus Wyeomyia.[1] It was named to honor the Venezuelan entomologist Manuel Núñez Tovar.[2]
The type species is Wyeomyia bicornis (Root, 1928).[1] The subgenus includes the species Wyeomyia bicornis (Root), Wyeomyia lateralis Petrocchi, and Wyeomyia paucartamboensis Porter.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 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.
- ↑ H. G. Dyar: The mosquitoes of the Americas. Publication No. 387, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1928.
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