ON : Matapoides smaragdinus H.H. Druce, 1912 OD : Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)9:502-503, text-fig.♂. TL : "Mt.Marapok, Dent Province, British North Borneo" [Mt.Marapok, Borneo]. (NHML) Distribution : P.Thailand (Ranong), Langkawi, W.Malaysia, Borneo.

[ THAILAND ]
Zela smaragdinus ; Pinratana,1985 : 86, pl.29, figs.185,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Zela smaragdina ; Kirton & Eliot,2004 : 329-331, 365, pl.2, figs.19,♂,20,♂(Un). (P.Thailand)
Zela smaragdina ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 806, pl.370, figs.H218,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Zela smaragdina ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 83. (by literature)
Zela smaragdina ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 866, pl.400, figs.H216,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)

The butterfly is very rare in Thailand. A single male has been knwon in Ranong.

Druce, H.H.,1912 : Descriptions of some apparently new butterflies from Borneo and one from Africa.
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)9:500-504.

Evans, W.H.,1949 : A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History).
i-xix+1-502, pls.1-35. London.

Kirton, L.G. & Eliot, J.N.,2004 : A Revision of the Rattan-Feeding Skipper Genus, Zela de Nicéville (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Malay. nat. J. 56(4):317-367.

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