Chrysoteuchia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Most are native to Asia.
The cranberry girdler (C. topiarius) is a pest of turfgrasses in North America. It also attacks cranberry and fir.Hodgson, E. R. and A. H. Roe. Cranberry girdler. Utah Pests Fact Sheet. Utah State University Extension. 2007.
There were about thirty species in the genus as of 2010.
Species
Chrysoteuchia argentistriellus (Leech, 1889) Chrysoteuchia atrosignatus (Zeller, 1877) Chrysoteuchia culmella (Linnaeus, 1758) - garden grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia curvicavus Song & Chen in Chen, Song & Yuan, 2001 Chrysoteuchia daisetsuzana (Matsumura, 1927) Chrysoteuchia deltella Song & Chen in Chen, Song & Yuan, 2001 Chrysoteuchia dentatella Song & Chen in Chen, Song & Yuan, 2001 Chrysoteuchia diplogrammus (Zeller, 1863) Chrysoteuchia disasterella Bleszynski, 1965 Chrysoteuchia distinctellus (Leech, 1889) Chrysoteuchia dividellus (Snellen, 1890) Chrysoteuchia fractellus (South in Leech & South, 1901) Chrysoteuchia fuliginosellus (South in Leech & South, 1901) Chrysoteuchia funebrellus (Caradja in Caradja & Meyrick, 1937) Chrysoteuchia furva Li & Li, 2010 Chrysoteuchia gonoxes (Bleszynski, 1962) Chrysoteuchia gregorella Bleszynski, 1965 Chrysoteuchia hamatella Chen, Song & Yuan, 2001 Chrysoteuchia hamatoides Song & Chen in Chen, Song & Yuan, 2001 Chrysoteuchia hyalodiscella (Caradja, 1927) Chrysoteuchia lolotiella (Caradja, 1927) Chrysoteuchia mandschuricus (Christoph, 1881) Chrysoteuchia moriokensis (Okano, 1958) Chrysoteuchia ningensis Li, 2012Li, W. and D. Liu. (2012). Chrysoteuchia ningensis sp. n., a new pyralid moth (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from China. Entomologica Fennica 23(2) 102-06. Chrysoteuchia nonifasciaria Li & Li, 2010 Chrysoteuchia picturatellus (South in Leech & South, 1901) Chrysoteuchia porcelanellus (Motschulsky, 1861) Chrysoteuchia pseudodiplogrammus (Okano, 1962) Chrysoteuchia pyraustoides (Erschoff, 1877) Chrysoteuchia quadrapicula Chen, Song & Yuan, 2003 Chrysoteuchia rotundiprojecta Li & Li, 2010 Chrysoteuchia shafferi Li & Li, 2010 Chrysoteuchia sonobei (Marumo, 1936) Chrysoteuchia topiarius (Zeller, 1866) - topiary grass-veneer moth, subterranean sod webworm, cranberry girdler Chrysoteuchia yuennanellus (Caradja in Caradja & Meyrick, 1937)
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