Evocoa

Evocoa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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

1. 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
2. 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