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

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

The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus^[1]

^ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts

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

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