''Chrysoteuchia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s of the family

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

described by

Jacob Hübner Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology. Scientific career Hübner was the author of '' ...

in 1825. Most are native to

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

. 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''. Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to long and in height; they have slender stems that are not th ...

and

fir Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus ''Abies'' () in the family Pinaceae. There are approximately 48–65 extant species, found on mountains throughout much of North and Central America, Eurasia, and North Africa. The genu ...

.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 ''Chrysoteuchia culmella'', the garden grass-veneer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was species description, first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Syste ...

'' (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 ''Chrysoteuchia'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Most are native to Asia. The Chrysoteuchia topiarius, cranberry girdler (''C. topiarius'') is a pest (organism), pest of lawn, turfgrasses in North ...

'' (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 ''Chrysoteuchia topiarius'', the topiary grass-veneer moth, subterranean sod webworm or cranberry girdler, is a moth of the family Crambidae. The species was first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1866. It is found in most of North Ameri ...

'' (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