# Epilacydes

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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Epilacydes
| authority = [Butler](/source/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler), 1875 
| type_species = ''Epilacydes simulans''
| type_species_authority = Butler, 1875
}}

'''''Epilacydes''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [tiger moths](/source/Arctiinae_(moth)) in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae) erected by [Arthur Gardiner Butler](/source/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler) in 1875. The moths are found in the [Afrotropics](/source/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](/source/Epilacydes_bayoni)'' <small>(Berio, 1935)</small>
* ''[Epilacydes pseudoscita](/source/Epilacydes_pseudoscita)'' <small>Dubatolov, 2006</small>
* ''[Epilacydes scita](/source/Epilacydes_scita)'' <small>(Walker, [1865])</small>
* ''[Epilacydes simulans](/source/Epilacydes_simulans)'' <small>Butler, 1875</small>
* ''[Epilacydes unilinea](/source/Epilacydes_unilinea)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>

==References==
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* {{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==
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*{{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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