Meza meza
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Meza |
| Species: | M. meza |
| Binomial name | |
| Meza meza (Hewitson, 1877)[1] | |
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Meza meza, the Common Missile, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of 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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