Meza mabillei (Holland, 1893)

Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Potocky, Pavel, Mertens, Jan E. J., Przybylowicz, Lukasz, Murkwe, Mercy, Kobe, Ishmeal N., Fokam, Eric B., Janecek, Stepan & Tropek, Robert, 2020, First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 50543-50543 : 50543

Meza mabillei (Holland, 1893)

Hesperiidae , Hesperiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mezamabillei (Holland, 1893); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Dikolo Peninsula, Bimbia-Bonadikombo Community Forest ; verbatimElevation: 30 m; decimalLatitude: 03.9818; decimalLongitude: 09.2625; Identification: identifiedBy: Szabolcs Sáfián | Robert Tropek; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Butterfly net; eventDate: 09/05/2015; habitat: Coastal forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mezamabillei (Holland, 1893); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Radio Hill, Bimbia village ; verbatimElevation: 220 m; decimalLatitude: 03.9666; decimalLongitude: 09.2411; Identification: identifiedBy: Szabolcs Sáfián | Robert Tropek; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Butterfly net; eventDate: 30/12/2014; habitat: Hilltop with disturbed lowland forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was known to be widely distributed in the Guinean biogeographic region (most countries from Guinea to Nigeria) and in Gabon. In the Mount Cameroon region, it was collected in the two lowest localities (30 and 220 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 29 ).

Figures

Figure 29. Meza mabillei (Holland, 1893). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.