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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Picture-winged Flies (Ulidiidae) » Otitinae » Otitini » Tetanops
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Unknown diptera on fava - Tetanops
Copyright © 2014 Paul Lenhart

Unknown diptera on fava - Tetanops
Lexington, University of Kentucky Spindletop farm, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
June 9, 2014
We found several of these flies on fava plants during arthropod surveys. Any help with identification would be greatly appreciated.
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Contributed by Paul Lenhart on 3 November, 2014 - 2:43pm
Last updated 4 September, 2015 - 10:35am

Moved
Moved from Picture-winged Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 4 September, 2015 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the ID. Is there any natural history data for these guys? I saw a related species is a pest of sugar beets.
… Paul Lenhart, 4 September, 2015 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

 
They can be pests
did you collect specimens? Perhaps you could reach out to an extension agent- a species ID would be necessary. I don't know whether this is the sugarbeet root maggot Tetanops myopaeformis, but I think it isn't. According to this paper T. myopaeformis can only attack chenopods.

Mahrt, G. G., & Blickenstaff, C. C. (1979). Host plants of the sugarbeet root maggot, Tetanops myopaeformis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 72(5), 627-631.
… Keith Bayless, 4 September, 2015 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Species ID.
I'll give it a go through this key. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25082352
… Paul Lenhart, 4 September, 2015 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… v belov, 21 November, 2014 - 4:22am login or register to post comments

Ulidiidae?
Ulidiidae?
… John F. Carr, 3 November, 2014 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

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