Meza meza

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Meza meza
Common missile (Meza meza) female underside.jpg
in Ghana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Meza
Species:
M. meza
Binomial name
Meza meza
(Hewitson, 1877) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia mezaHewitson, 1877
  • Apaustus bateaPlötz, 1879
  • Pamphila buboviKarsch, 1893
  • Gastrochaeta variaMabille; Holland, 1896
  • Baoris ogruganaLathy, 1903

Meza meza, the common missile, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of disturbed and successional forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum .

References

  1. ↑ Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae


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