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Zela
Zela onara in Rhopalocera of Java (figure 83)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

• Zela cowani Evans, Peninsula Malaya
• Zela elioti Evans, 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

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.
  • Zela de Nicéville, 1895 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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