Chrysoteuchia | |
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Chrysoteuchia culmella | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Tribe: | Crambini |
Genus: | Chrysoteuchia Hübner, 1825[1] |
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Chrysoteuchia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Most are native to Asia.[2]
The cranberry girdler (C. topiarius) is a pest of turfgrasses in North America. It also attacks cranberry and fir.[3]
There were about thirty species in the genus as of 2010.[2]