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Meza leucophaea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Meza

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Meza leucophaea, the margined missile, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding from the blossoms of a low-growing species of Pterocarpus.

Subspecies

  • Meza leucophaea leucophaea (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon)
  • Meza leucophaea bassa Lindsey & Miller, 1965 (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
  • References

    Meza leucophaea Wikipedia