Chrysoteuchia Explained

Chrysoteuchia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Most are native to Asia.^[1]

The cranberry girdler (C. topiarius) is a pest of turfgrasses in North America. It also attacks cranberry and fir.^[2]

There were about thirty species in the genus as of 2010.^[1]

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^[1]
• 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, 2012^[3]
• Chrysoteuchia nonifasciaria Li & Li, 2010^[1]
• 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^[1]
• Chrysoteuchia shafferi Li & Li, 2010^[1]
• Chrysoteuchia sonobei (Marumo, 1936)
• Chrysoteuchia topiarius (Zeller, 1866) - topiary grass-veneer moth, subterranean sod webworm, cranberry girdler
• Chrysoteuchia yuennanellus (Caradja in Caradja & Meyrick, 1937)

Notes and References

1. Li . Houhun . Li . Weichun . 2010 . Four new species of the genus Chrysoteuchia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) from China . Zootaxa . 2485 . 33–46 . 10.5281/zenodo.195505.
2. Hodgson, E. R. and A. H. Roe. Cranberry girdler. Utah Pests Fact Sheet. Utah State University Extension. 2007.
3. Li, W. and D. Liu. (2012). Chrysoteuchia ningensis sp. n., a new pyralid moth (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from China. Entomologica Fennica 23(2) 102-06.