Cooksonia (butterfly)

Cooksonia
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
Synonyms
  • Sheffieldia H. H. Druce, 1912

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.