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| Meza meza | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Meza |
| Species: | M. meza |
| Binomial name | |
| Meza 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, Burkina Faso[2], Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[3] 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
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae