Meza mabea
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| Family: | Hesperiidae
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| Genus: | Meza
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| Species: | M. mabea
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| Meza mabea (Holland, 1894)[1]
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Meza mabea, the dark brown missile, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of drier forests.
The larvae feed on , and Baphia pubescens.
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- ^ Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1894
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Erionotini stubs