Pocota Le Peletier & Serville, 1828

Pocota Le Peletier & Serville, 1828: 518 . Type species: Milesia apicata Meigen, 1822, by monotypy Dasymyia Egger, 1858: 711 . Type species: Musca apiformis Schrank, 1781, by monotypy

Genus diagnosis. Body with long pile; eye bare, contiguous in males; face black, concave and bare; gena bare; anterior anepisternum bare; katepisternum with two separate dorsal and ventral patches of pile; metasternum weakly developed and bare; subscutellar fringe present; cell r1 open; cross vein r-m located beyond middle of discal cell (dm); distal section of vein R4+5 at most 1/3 as long as humeral cross vein (h); hind femur unarmed; abdomen entirely black coloured.