Meza

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Ceratrichiini
Genus: Meza
Species: M. banda –M. budonga –M. cybeutes –M. elba –M. gardineri –M. indusiata –M. larea –M. leucophaea –M. mabea –M. mabillei –M. meza

Name

Meza Hemming, 1939.

Type species: Hesperia meza Hewitson, 1877: 79.

Synonymy

• Gastrochaeta Holland, 1894ː 28. Typusː Gastrochaeta mabillei Holland, 1894ː 28; Evans, 1937ː 124; Hemming, 1967ː 196. Invalid; = Gastrochaeta Dujardin, 1841ː 384.
  
• Meza Hemming, 1939: 39; Peters, 1952ː 128; 1967ː 290; Kielland, 1990ː 245; Bridges, 1994ː IX.37. (For homonymous author see Elsa Meza)
  

References

• Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. Zoobank. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) 1–212. Reference page. 
• Dujardin, F. 1841. Histoire naturelle des Zoophytes, Infusoires, comprenant la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. pp. i–xii, 1–684. Paris: Roret. BHL Reference page. 
• Hemming, A. F. 1939. Notes on the generic nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, I. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B)8: 39, 133-138. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C. 1877. Descriptions of twenty-five new species of Hesperidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)19: 76–85. Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Miller, L.D. 1971. Descriptions of new species and notes on other Hesperiidae of Africa. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 2: 1–17. PDF. Reference page. 
• Peters, W., 1952. A provisional check-list of the butterflies of the Ethiopian region. 210pp. E.W. Classey. Reference page.