| Evocoa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Infraorder: | Asilomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Asiloidea |
| Family: | Evocoidae Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann, 2006 |
| Genus: | Evocoa Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann, 2006 |
| Species: | E. chilensis
|
| Binomial name | |
| Evocoa chilensis (Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann, 2003)
| |
| Synonyms | |
|
Ocoa Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann, 2003 | |
Evocoa is a monotypic genus of flies containing the single species Evocoa chilensis. It is the only genus in the family Evocoidae.
This fly was described in 2003 with the name Ocoa chilensis,1 and it was placed in its own family, but that genus name was preoccupied. A new genus name was coined in 2006.2
This species is a small fly native to Chile.1
References
References
- Yeates, D. K., et al. (2003). Ocoidae, a new family of asiloid flies (Diptera: Brachycera: Asiloidea), based on Ocoa chilensis gen. and sp. n. from Chile, South America. Systematic Entomology 28(4), 417-31. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2003.00224.x
- Yeates, D. K., et al. (2006). Evocoidae (Diptera: Asiloidea), a new family name for Ocoidae, based on Evocoa, a replacement name for the Chilean genus Ocoa Yeates, Irwin, and Wiegmann 2003. Systematic Entomology 31(2), 373. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00332.x