Zela (skipper)

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Zela is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers.

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Zela
Zela onara in Rhopalocera of Java (figure 83)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Megathymini
Genus: Zela
de Niceville 1895
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms
  • Matapoides Druce, 1912
  • Zampa de Nicéville, 1895
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Species

  • Zela cowani Evans, [1939] Peninsula Malaya
  • Zela elioti Evans, [1939] Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman
  • Zela excellens (Staudinger, 1889) Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Siberut, Palawan
  • Zela onara (Butler, 1870) Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
  • Zela smaragdinus (H. H. Druce, 1912) Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo
  • Zela zenon (de Nicéville, 1895) Borneo
  • Zela zero Evans, 1932
  • Zela zeta Devyatkin, 2007
  • Zela zeus de Nicéville, 1895 Assam to Malaya, Burma, Philippines, Thailand, Langkawi

Biology

The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus[1]

References

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