Biology:Zela (skipper)
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Short description: Genus of butterflies
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| Zela onara in Rhopalocera of Java (figure 83) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Erionotini |
| Genus: | Zela de Niceville 1895 |
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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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zela (skipper). |
- 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
Wikidata ☰ Q8068687 entry
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