Athesis

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

For the river which was called Athesis in ancient period, see Adige.

Athesis

Athesis acrisione
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Lepidoptera

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Nymphalidae

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Danainae

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Ithomiini

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Athesis

Doubleday, [1847]

Type species
Athesis clearista

Doubleday, 1847

Species

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Synonyms

* Roswellia Fox, 1948

Athesis is a Neotropical genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Edward Doubleday in 1847. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.

## Species

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Arranged alphabetically:[1]

* Athesis acrisione Hewitson, 1869
* Athesis clearista Doubleday, [1847]
* Athesis vitrala Kaye, 1918

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Athesis.

1. ^ "Athesis Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Taxon identifiers

Athesis|

* Wikidata: Q1762562
* Wikispecies: Athesis
* BioLib: 400131
* BOLD: 541822
* ButMoth: 3136.0
* CoL: 9237T
* EoL: 19074
* GBIF: 1907726
* iNaturalist: 602675
* Insecta.pro: 27626
* IRMNG: 1331767
* LepIndex: 149287
* NCBI: 344620
* Open Tree of Life: 745302

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