Tetanops myopaeformis, the sugar beet root maggot,[1] 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 | |
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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
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| Binomial name | |
| Tetanops myopaeformis (von Röder, 1881)
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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
edit- ^ 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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