Meza meza

Meza meza
	in Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Meza
Species:	M. meza
Binomial name
	Meza meza; (Hewitson, 1877)
Synonyms
	Hesperia meza Hewitson, 1877; Apaustus batea Plötz, 1879; Pamphila bubovi Karsch, 1893; Gastrochaeta varia Mabille; Holland, 1896; Baoris ogrugana Lathy, 1903;

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, 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.

Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. This species is #1354. The 'Larsen' numbers have since been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana.

References

↑ 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
↑ Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.
↑ Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 179. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.

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[1] Meza at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] 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

[3] Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.

[4] Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 179. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.