Tylopaedia is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae.

[1] It is monotypic containing only the species Tylopaedia sardonyx, the king copper, which is found in South Africa and Namibia.

Adults are on wing from August to December and from January to April in two generations per year.

[2] The larvae feed on Aspalathus spinosa, Phylica olaefolia, and Euclea undulata.

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