''Pharcoura'' is a genus of

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

in the family

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 8,000 described species in about 250 genera. The genus '' Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally a ...

from

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. It is the first genus in the subfamily

Medeterinae Medeterinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Genera *'' Atlatlia'' Bickel, 1986 *'' Cryptopygiella'' Robinson, 1975 *'' Dominicomyia'' Robinson, 1975 *'' Grootaertia'' Grichanov, 1999 *'' Hurleyella'' Runyon & Robinson, 201 ...

to be described from ''

Nothofagus ''Nothofagus'', also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere, found across southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guin ...

'' forests. The generic name is a combination of the

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

words ''pharkis'' (wrinkle) and ''oura'' (tail).

Species

* '' Pharcoura biobio'' Bickel, 2007 * '' Pharcoura nahuelbuta'' Bickel, 2007 * '' Pharcoura newthayorum'' Bickel, 2007

References

Dolichopodidae genera Medeterinae Diptera of South America Endemic fauna of Chile {{Dolichopodidae-stub