Eicochrysops messapus, the cupreous blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Africa. In South Africa it is rare and only known from the northern part of the Limpopo province and northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Subspecies
• E. m. messapus — South Africa: Western Cape to Free State provinces • E. m. mahallakoeana (Wallengren, 1857) — South Africa: northern Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, northern Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West provinces • E. m. nandiana (Bethune-Baker, 1906) — Kenya, Uganda • E. m. sebagadis (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) — highlands of Ethiopia ==References==