Kingdom Animalia Order Diptera Subsection Acalyptratae Scientific name Tetanops myopaeformis Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Section Schizophora Superfamily Tephritoidea Higher classification Tetanops | |
Similar Picture‑winged flies, Synanthedon myopaeformis, Pemphigus betae, Cercospora beticola, Metarhizium | ||
The sugar beet root maggot (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 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.
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