Zela (skipper)

Zela
Zela onara in Rhopalocera of Java (figure 83)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Zela de Niceville 1895
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
Matapoides Druce, 1912 Zampa de Nicéville, 1895

Zela is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers.

Species[]

• Evans, [1939] Peninsula Malaya
• Evans, [1939] Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman
• (Staudinger, 1889) Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Siberut, Palawan
• (Butler, 1870) Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
• (H. H. Druce, 1912) Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo
• (de Nicéville, 1895) Borneo
• Evans, 1932
• Devyatkin, 2007
• de Nicéville, 1895 Assam to Malaya, Burma, Philippines, Thailand, Langkawi

Biology[]

The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus^[1]

References[]

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• Devyatkin, A.L., 2007: Hesperiidae of Vietnam, 16. A new species and a new record of the Hesperiidae from Central Vietnam, with a revisional note on the genus Hidari Distant, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Atalanta 38 (3-4): 347-349.
  • Zela de Nicéville, 1895 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms