Meza meza

Meza meza, the common missile, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. 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.^[2] The habitat consists of disturbed and successional forests.

Meza meza
in Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Meza
Species:	M. meza
Binomial name
Meza meza (Hewitson, 1877)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia meza Hewitson, 1877 Apaustus batea Plötz, 1879 Pamphila bubovi Karsch, 1893 Gastrochaeta varia Mabille; Holland, 1896 Baoris ogrugana Lathy, 1903

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum.