Meza (butterfly)

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Meza
Common missile (Meza meza) underside.jpg
M. meza in Ghana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Ceratrichiini
Genus: Meza
Hemming, 1939 [1]
Synonyms
  • GastrochaetaHolland, 1894

Meza is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

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References

  1. Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms