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