''Chrysoteuchia'' is a

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moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s of the family

Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Most are native to

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. The cranberry girdler (''C. topiarius'') is a pest of turfgrasses in North America. It also attacks

cranberry Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus ''Oxycoccus'' of the genus '' Vaccinium''. In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species '' Vaccinium oxycoccos'', while in North America, 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)

References

Crambini Crambidae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Crambini-stub