Meza leucophaea

Meza leucophaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Meza
Species:
M. leucophaea
Binomial name
Meza leucophaea
(Holland, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
  • Parnara leucophaea Holland, 1894

Meza leucophaea, the margined missile, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon.[2] 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

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  1. ^ Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
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