Apaturopsis cleochares, the painted empress, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Adults are attracted to fermenting bananas, excrement and other decaying matter.

The larvae possibly feed on Obetia tenax.

This article related to members of the butterfly subfamily Apaturinae is a stub.