Meza meza ( Hewitson, 1877 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 56

223. Meza meza ( Hewitson, 1877)

WL: 16mm. The species is known from degraded forest habitats, and is possibly the most common among the known species of Meza (Larsen, 2005) . It is distributed from Senegal to Angola and Uganda. According to Vuattoux (1999), the caterpillars feed on the monocotyledonous Paspalum conjugatum (Poaceae) , a statement disputed by Larsen (2005) as all the remaining species in the genus feed on dicotyledonous species. Previous references. Regions: Bolama. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007). Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.