title: Cooksonia (butterfly)
text: # 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
  