Athyrtis is a butterfly genus of the Ithomiini tribe in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Athyrtis mechanitis. The genus and the species were named by father and son entomologists Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1862."Athyrtis C. & R. Felder, 1862" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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