Evocoa
Genus of insects
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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]
