Monza cretacea
Monza cretacea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Monza |
Species: | M. cretacea |
Binomial name | |
Monza cretacea (Snellen, 1872)[1] | |
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Monza cretacea, the white-bodied grass skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of drier forests and secondary habitats and occasionally Guinea savanna.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Setaria megaphylla and Saccharum officinarum.
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