Meza mabea
Species of butterfly
| Meza mabea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Meza |
| Species: | M. mabea |
| Binomial name | |
| Meza mabea (Holland, 1894)[1] | |
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Meza mabea, the dark brown missile, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of drier forests.
The larvae feed on Dalbergia heudelotti, Dalbergia oblongifolia and Baphia pubescens.
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