Monza cretacea

Monza cretacea
Female, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Monza
Species:	M. cretacea
Binomial name
Monza cretacea (Snellen, 1872) [1]
Synonyms
Goniloba cretaceaSnellen, 1872 Hesperia gonessaHewitson, 1877 Pamphila leucosomaMabille, 1877 Hesperia cameronaPlötz, 1879 Hypoleucis cretacea var. ploetzianaStrand, 1921 Acleros oldenburgiNeustetter, 1927

Monza cretacea, the white-bodied grass skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania. ^[2] The habitat consists of drier forests and secondary habitats and occasionally Guinea savanna.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Setaria megaphylla and Saccharum officinarum .

References

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