# Episparis
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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = Episparis taiwana.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Episparis taiwana](/source/Episparis_taiwana)''
| taxon = Episparis
| authority = [Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), [1857]
| synonyms =
*''Neviasca'' Walker, [1859]
*''Pradiota'' Walker, 1866
*''Epigrypodes'' Turner, 1936
*''Episparina'' Berio, 1964
*''Episparonia'' Berio, 1964
}}
'''''Episparis''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [moth](/source/moth)s in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae) erected by [Francis Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)) in 1857.
==Description==
Palpi upturned and hairy. Third joint minute. A short frontal tuft present. Antennae bipectinated to two-thirds length in male. Thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hair. Tibia hairy. Forewings with straight costa. Outer margin excised from vein 5 to outer angle. Hindwings with produced outer margin to a point at vein 3 and excised below the point.[{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}]
==Species==
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* ''[Episparis agnesae](/source/Episparis_agnesae)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis angulatilinea](/source/Episparis_angulatilinea)'' Bethune-Baker, 1906
* ''[Episparis brunoi](/source/Episparis_brunoi)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis connubens](/source/Episparis_connubens)'' Holland, 1894
* ''[Episparis costistriga](/source/Episparis_costistriga)'' (Walker, 1864)
* ''[Episparis emmanueli](/source/Episparis_emmanueli)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis experimens](/source/Episparis_experimens)'' Walker, 1862
* ''[Episparis farinosa](/source/Episparis_farinosa)'' Bryk, 1915
* ''[Episparis fenestrifera](/source/Episparis_fenestrifera)'' Bryk, 1915
* ''[Episparis gomphiona](/source/Episparis_gomphiona)'' Hampson, 1926
* ''[Episparis grandis](/source/Episparis_grandis)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis hannemanni](/source/Episparis_hannemanni)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis hieroglyphica](/source/Episparis_hieroglyphica)'' Holland, 1894
* ''[Episparis homoeosema](/source/Episparis_homoeosema)'' Hampson, 1926
* ''[Episparis hyalinata](/source/Episparis_hyalinata)'' (Holland, 1920)
* ''[Episparis jacquelina](/source/Episparis_jacquelina)'' Swinhoe, 1902
* ''[Episparis lamprina](/source/Episparis_lamprina)'' Holland, 1894
* ''[Episparis leucotessellis](/source/Episparis_leucotessellis)'' Hampson, 1902
* ''[Episparis liturata](/source/Episparis_liturata)'' (Fabricius, 1787)
* ''[Episparis lunata](/source/Episparis_lunata)'' Holland, 1894
* ''[Episparis malagasy](/source/Episparis_malagasy)'' Viette, 1966
* ''[Episparis minima](/source/Episparis_minima)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis monochroma](/source/Episparis_monochroma)'' Hampson, 1926
* ''[Episparis okinawensis](/source/Episparis_okinawensis)'' Sugi, 1982
* ''[Episparis penetrata](/source/Episparis_penetrata)'' Walker, [1857]
* ''[Episparis sinistra](/source/Episparis_sinistra)'' (Holland 1894)
* ''[Episparis spilothyris](/source/Episparis_spilothyris)'' Viette, 1956
* ''[Episparis sponsata](/source/Episparis_sponsata)'' (Fabricius, 1787)
* ''[Episparis sylvani](/source/Episparis_sylvani)'' Pelletier, 1982
* ''[Episparis taiwana](/source/Episparis_taiwana)'' Wileman & West, 1929
* ''[Episparis tortuosalis](/source/Episparis_tortuosalis)'' Moore, 1867
* ''[Episparis varialis](/source/Episparis_varialis)'' (Walker, 1858)
* ''[Episparis vitrea](/source/Episparis_vitrea)'' (Saalmuller, 1891)
* ''[Episparis xanthographa](/source/Episparis_xanthographa)'' Hampson, 1926
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/episparis/ |title=''Episparis'' Walker, [1857] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 14, 2019 |archive-date=January 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023438/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/episparis/ |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Pangraptinae
Category:Moth genera
Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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