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''Decticogaster'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
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. It contains only one species, ''Decticogaster zonulalis'', which is found on
Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index considers the genus to be a synonym of ''
Tatobotys ''Tatobotys'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881. Species *'' Tatobotys africana'' (Ghesquière, 1942) *'' Tatobotys albivenalis'' Hampson, 1897 *'' Tatobotys angustalis'' Caradja & Meyrick, 1 ...
'' and the species to be a synonym of ''
Tatobotys varanesalis ''Tatobotys varanesalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found on Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic ...
''.


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Acentropinae Crambidae genera Monotypic moth genera {{Acentropinae-stub