''Erikssonia'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...
. They are found on sandy substrates, though ''E. edgei'' appears to be found on more loamy sand than its congeners.
They are slow fliers.
Species
There are four species:
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Erikssonia acraeina''
Trimen, 1891 – Eriksson's copper
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Erikssonia bouyeri''
Gardiner, 2012
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Erikssonia cooksoni
''Erikssonia cooksoni'', the Cookson's copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1905. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Lualaba) and north-western Zambia. I ...
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Druce, 1905 – Cookson's copper
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Erikssonia edgei''
Gardiner & Terblanche, 2010 – Waterberg copper
References
External links
"''Erikssonia'' Trimen, 1891"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Roland Trimen
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