Evocoa
Evocoa is a monotypic genus of flies containing the single species Evocoa chilensis. It is the only genus in the family Evocoidae.
| Evocoa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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Ocoa Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann, 2003 | |
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]
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.
- 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.
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