{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Epilacydes | authority = Butler, 1875 | type_species = ''Epilacydes simulans'' | type_species_authority = Butler, 1875 }}
'''''Epilacydes''''' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/epilacydes/ |title=''Epilacydes'' Butler, 1875 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=September 27, 2019}}</ref>
== Species == * ''Epilacydes bayoni'' <small>(Berio, 1935)</small> * ''Epilacydes pseudoscita'' <small>Dubatolov, 2006</small> * ''Epilacydes scita'' <small>(Walker, [1865])</small> * ''Epilacydes simulans'' <small>Butler, 1875</small> * ''Epilacydes unilinea'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{aut|Dubatolov, V. V.}}, 2006: New genera and species of Arctiinae from the Afrotropical fauna (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Nachrichten des Entomologische Vereins Apollo'' '''27''' (3): 139–152.
==External links== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Spilosomina Category:Moth genera
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