Meza meza
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| Family: | Hesperiidae
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| Genus: | Meza
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| Species: | M. meza
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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.
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- ^ Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1877
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs