| Tetanops myopaeformis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Ulidiidae |
| Genus: | Tetanops |
| Species: | T. myopaeformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tetanops myopaeformis (von Röder, 1881) | |
Tetanops myopaeformis, the sugar beet root maggot, is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Tetanops of the family Ulidiidae. It is a serious pest of sugarbeets in North America.
The fly was described first by the name Eurycephala myopaeformis by Viktor von Röder in 1881. In 1907 the name was emended by Friedrich Hendel to Eurycephalomyia in order to avoid confusion with the preoccupied name Eurycephala for a genus of leaf bugs, now called Halticus.
References
- Kathy L. Iverson, Mary C. Bromel, Albin W. Anderson, and Thomas P. Freeman. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1984 Jan; 47(1): 22–27. PMC 239605, Bacterial Symbionts in the Sugar Beet Root Maggot, Tetanops myopaeformis (von Röder)
- Röder, Viktor von (1881): Eurycephala n. g., eine neue Dipterengattung. In: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, vol. 25: 211–212
- Schuh, R.T.: References for genus Eurycephala Laporte, 1832, On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae), The American Museum of Natural History 2002-2013
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