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.

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 fly was described first by the name Eurycephala myopaeformis by Viktor von Röder in 1881.[2] 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.[3]

References
  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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