Evocoa
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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.
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Evocoa | |
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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 |
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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]