''Athesis'' is a

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

genus of clearwing ( ithomiine) butterflies, named by

Edward Doubleday Edward Doubleday (9 October 1810 – 14 December 1849) was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for ''The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and ...

in 1847. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family,

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

Species

Arranged alphabetically:"''Athesis'' Doubleday, [1847]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''Athesis acrisione">847]"">"''Athesis'' Doubleday, [1847]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''Athesis acrisione'' Hewitson, 1869 *''Athesis clearista'' Doubleday, [1847] *''Athesis vitrala'' Kaye, 1918

References

Ithomiini Nymphalidae of South America Nymphalidae genera {{Danainae-stub