Zela (skipper)
Zela | |
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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 | |
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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
- 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