Evocoa is a monotypic genus of flies containing the single species Evocoa chilensis. It is the only genus in the family Evocoidae.

Evocoa
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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

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

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  1. ^ a b 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