Cooksonia | |
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Cooksonia neavei | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Poritiinae |
Tribe: | Liptenini |
Subtribe: | Mimacraeina |
Genus: | Cooksonia H. H. Druce, 1905 |
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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.
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.