Athesis

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

{{For| the river which was called Athesis in ancient period|Adige}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Athesis_acrisione.jpg

| image_caption = Athesis acrisione

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Nymphalidae

| subfamilia = Danainae

| tribus = Ithomiini

| genus = Athesis

| genus_authority = Doubleday, [1847]

| type_species = Athesis clearista

| type_species_authority = Doubleday, 1847

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| 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.