Nunezia is a subgenus of the mosquito genus Wyeomyia.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. It was named to honor the Venezuelan entomologist Manuel Núñez Tovar.H. G. Dyar: The mosquitoes of the Americas. Publication No. 387, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1928.
The type species is Wyeomyia bicornis (Root, 1928). The subgenus includes the species Wyeomyia bicornis (Root), Wyeomyia lateralis Petrocchi, and Wyeomyia paucartamboensis Porter.
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