Manuel Bautista de las Mercedes Nuñez Tovar, Venezuelan medical entomologist and parasitologist (Caicara de Maturín, Monagas State 24 September 1872 – Maracay, Aragua State 27 January 1928)

First to explain the miiasis transmitted by mosquitoes

DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA

Valid Genus

Fransaia 1927 with Dyar

Species

Aedes argyrites 1926 with Dyar

Culex bihaicola 1927 with Dyar

Culex macaronensis 1926 with Dyar

Haemagogus celeste 1926 with Dyar

Phlebotomus evansi 1924

Phlebotomus maracayensis 1924

Phlebotomus otamae 1924

Phlebotomus rangeli 1924

Simulium lugubre 1928 with Lutz

Simulium versicolor 1928 with Lutz

Trichoprosopron pusillum 1928 with Lutz

Wyeomyia caracula 1927 with Dyar

Wyeomyia favor 1928 with Dyar

Wyeomyia felicia 1927 with Dyar

Wyeomyia gausapata 1927 with Dyar

Wyeomyia guadians 1927 with Dyar

Wyeomyia pampithes 1928 with Dyar

Wyeomyia serratoria 1927 with Dyar 

HONORS

Subgenus Nunezia Dyar 1928 (Diptera)