Cooksonia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Mimacraeina
Genus: Cooksonia
Species: C. abri – C. aliciae – C. gardineri – C. ginettae – C. neavei – C. nozolinoi – C. trimeni
Name

Cooksonia Druce, 1905: 256.

Type species: Cooksonia trimeni Druce, 1905, by original designation
Synonymy

Sheffieldia Druce, 1912: 128.

References

Collins, S.C.; Larsen, T.B. 2008: Eighteen new species, five new subspecies, and interesting data on other African butterflies – Fourth ABRI research paper. Metamorphosis, 19(2): 42–113. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.
Druce, H.H. 1905. Descriptions of some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Harold Cookson in northern Rhodesia, in 1903 and 1904. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [53(2)]: 251–262, pl. 13. text, plate. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1905.tb02453.x Reference page.
Druce, H.H. 1912. Descriptions of new exotic Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae. Entomologist's monthly magazine 48: 128–133, pls 9,10. BHL text, pls. Reference page.
Edge, D.A. 2018. A new species of Cooksonia Druce, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae) from western Zambia. Metamorphosis 29: 51–55. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page.
Talbot, G. 1935. New species and forms of African Lycaenidae (Lep.: Rhop.) [and supplement]. Entomologist's monthly magazine 71: 69-78, 115-127, 147-153; ill.; Suppl.: 202-209; ill. Reference page.
Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.

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.
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

References

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