Global InformationPintomyia nuneztovari information
| Pintomyia nuneztovari | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Diptera
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| Family: | Psychodidae
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| Subfamily: | Phlebotominae
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| Genus: | Pintomyia
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| Subgenus: | Pifanomyia
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| Species: | P. nuneztovari
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| Binomial name | |
| Pintomyia nuneztovari Ortíz, 1954
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Pintomyia nuneztovari is a phlebotomous sand fly in the subgenus Pifanomyia native to South America.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ 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 Oct 2018.
- ^ Ignacio Ortíz. 1954. Descripcion de dos nuevas especies del genero Phlebotomus Rondani (Diptera, Psychodidae) de Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuela 1:231-250 (232).