Monza alberti

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Monza alberti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Monza
Species:
M. alberti
Binomial name
Monza alberti
(Holland, 1896) [1]
Synonyms
  • Baoris albertiHolland, 1896
  • Parnara entebbeaSwinhoe, 1909
  • Baoris alberti ab. bibundicanaStrand, 1913
  • Baoris alberti ab. alenicolaStrand, 1913

Monza alberti, the black grass skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of forests, including degraded and riverine forests that penetrate Guinea savanna.

Adults are attracted to the flowers of acanthaceous plants.

The larvae feed on Pennisetum species.

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References

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