Zela (skipper)

Genus of butterflies

Zela

Zela onara in Rhopalocera of Java (figure 83)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
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

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* 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

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The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus[1]

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Zela (skipper).

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

Taxon identifiers

Zela|

* Wikidata: Q8068687
* Wikispecies: Zela
* BioLib: 643988
* BOLD: 503983
* ButMoth: 30952.0
* CoL: 92QRC
* EoL: 20523
* GBIF: 1946740
* iNaturalist: 429783
* Insecta.pro: 26887
* IRMNG: 1335611
* LepIndex: 189897
* NCBI: 509519
* Open Tree of Life: 316131

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