Evocoa Explained

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]

Notes and 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.
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.