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

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

Biology

The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus[1]

References
  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.


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