Kingdom Animalia Family Hesperiidae Genus Meza Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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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 the Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of disturbed and successional forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum.
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