Cooksonia (butterfly)

Cooksonia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1905.^[1] Cooksonia is endemic to the Afrotropical realm.

Cooksonia
C. neavei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cooksonia H. H. Druce, 1905
Synonyms
Sheffieldia H. H. Druce, 1912

Etymology

The genus name honours Harold Cookson (1876-1969), a farmer and amateur zoologist who lived in Muden, Natal, and later in the Vumba Mountains in what was then Rhodesia.

Species

• Cooksonia abri Collins & Larsen, 2008
• Cooksonia aliciae Talbot, 1935
• Cooksonia ginettae Collins & Larsen, 2008
• Cooksonia neavei (H. H. Druce, 1912)
• Cooksonia trimeni H. H. Druce, 1905