Cooksonia (butterfly)
# Cooksonia (butterfly)

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
