| Tetanops myopaeformis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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, [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.
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]