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)