Lycaena tama, the Canterbury alpine boulder copper, is a species of copper which lives on the central South Island of New Zealand.

[1] A small butterfly with copper wings and a "marginal series of violet dots".

[2] It was named tama as a distinct species by R. W. Fereday after "a traditionary Maori chief of that name.

"[2] Lycaena tama lives in the Mackenzie Basin and in the areas around Canterbury.

It was first described as being in and around "Drayton Station, on the plains near Mount Hutt; spurs of mountains near Castle Hill Station; and the top of the Mount Hutt range"[2] Lycaena tama uses the host plant pōhuehue.