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Meza meza

Synonyms: Apaustus batea; Baoris ogrugana; Gastrochaeta varia; Hesperia meza; Pamphila bubovi

Wikipedia Abstract

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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Prey / Diet

Paspalum conjugatum (herbe creole)[1]

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0