Tetanops myopaeformis

Tetanops myopaeformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Section:	Schizophora
Subsection:	Acalyptratae
Superfamily:	Tephritoidea
Family:	Ulidiidae
Genus:	Tetanops
Species:	T. myopaeformis
Binomial name
	Tetanops myopaeformis;

The sugar beet root maggot^[1] (Tetanops myopaeformis) 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 in 1881.^[2] In 1907 the name was emended by to Eurycephalomyia in order to avoid confusion with the preoccupied name Eurycephala for a genus of leaf bugs, now called Halticus.^[3]

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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[1] 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)

[2] Röder, Viktor von (1881): Eurycephala n. g., eine neue Dipterengattung. In: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, vol. 25: 211–212

[3] 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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