Cooksonia (butterfly)

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Cooksonia
Cooksonia neavei rhodesiae, Criston Bank, Harare.jpg
Cooksonia neavei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Poritiinae
Tribe: Liptenini
Subtribe: Mimacraeina
Genus: Cooksonia
H. H. Druce, 1905
Synonyms
  • SheffieldiaH. H. Druce, 1912

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.

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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. Savela, Markku (August 29, 2016). "Cooksonia Druce, 1905". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.