Cooksonia (butterfly)

Cooksonia
C. neavei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cooksonia
Druce, 1905[1]
Species

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Synonyms
  • Sheffieldia Druce, 1912

Cooksonia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Cooksonia is endemic to the Afrotropics.

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

References

  1. Cooksonia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms


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