Apatura

{{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}}

{{Hatnote|As used for the cracker butterflies by Illiger in 1807, Apatura has been officially rejected and is now Hamadryas.}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Apatura ilia1.jpg

| image_caption = Lesser purple emperor

| taxon = Apatura

| authority = Fabricius, 1807

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms =

{{genus list

| Aeola | Billberg, 1820

| Apaturia | Sodoffsky, 1837

| Athymodes | Moore, 1896

| Bremeria | Moore, 1896

| Chitoria | Moore, 1896

| Dravira | Moore, 1896

| Limina | Moore, 1896

| Mars | Girard, 1866

| Mimathyma | Moore, 1896

| Narsenga | Moore, 1896

| Potamis | Hübner, [1806]

| Rohana | Moore, 1880

| Sincana | Moore, 1896

}}

| synonyms_ref={{LepIndex|access-date=31 July 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Savela |first1=Markku |title=Apatura |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/apaturinae/apatura/|website=Lepidoptera and some other life forms |access-date=31 July 2018}}

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Apatura is a genus of butterflies commonly known as the emperors.

File:Apatura eat frog 2010 G2.jpg) and lesser purple emperors (Apatura ilia) sucking moisture from the body of a dead common frog (Rana temporaria), Ukraine]]