Pintomyia nuneztovari is a phlebotomous sand fly in the subgenus Pifanomyia native to South America.Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit: Pintomyia (Pif.) nuneztovari, SOUTHCOM Medically Important Arthropods, http://www.wrbu.org/sfID/sf_medspc/AD/LUnzt_A.html, last accessed 8 October 2018. It was named by the entomologist who first described the species in the scientific literature, Venezuelan entomologist Ignacio Ortíz, to honor the scientific contributions of Manuel Núñez Tovar.Ignacio Ortíz. 1954. Descripcion de dos nuevas especies del genero Phlebotomus Rondani (Diptera, Psychodidae) de Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuela 1:231-250 (232).
Distribution Pintomyia nuneztovari occurs in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
Bionomics Pintomyia nuneztovari has been found to readily bite humans indoors between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Medical Importance Genus Leishmania trypanosomes, responsible for the disease leishmaniasis, have been reported in Pin. nuneztovari from Bolivia.
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