{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Epitausa | authority = Walker, [1857] | synonyms = *''Orthogramma'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> *''Archana'' <small>Walker, 1865</small> }}
'''''Epitausa''''' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1857.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 6, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/eulepidotinae/epitausa/ |title=''Epitausa'' Walker, [1857] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=284188 |accessdate=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=10202.0 |title=''Epitausa'' Walker, 1857 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=May 26, 2020}}</ref>
==Species== *''Epitausa adelpha'' <small>(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)</small> Argentina *''Epitausa atriplaga'' <small>(Walker, 1858)</small> Brazil (Amazonas), Panama *''Epitausa coppryi'' <small>(Guenée, 1852)</small> Brazil (Amazonas), French Guiana *''Epitausa dilina'' <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, [1858])</small> Brazil (Amazonas) *''Epitausa ferogia'' <small>(Schaus, 1906)</small> Brazil (São Paulo) *''Epitausa flagrans'' <small>(Walker, 1869)</small> Suriname *''Epitausa hermesia'' <small>(Schaus, 1906)</small> Brazil (São Paulo) *''Epitausa laetabilis'' <small>Walker, [1857]</small> Dominican Republic *''Epitausa livescens'' <small>(Guenée, 1852)</small> French Guiana *''Epitausa lurida'' <small>(Butler, 1879)</small> Brazil (Amazonas) *''Epitausa megastigma'' <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, [1854])</small> Suriname *''Epitausa modesta'' <small>(Schaus, 1914)</small> Suriname *''Epitausa obliterans'' <small>(Walker, 1858)</small> Brazil (Amazonas) *''Epitausa octophora'' <small>(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)</small> Brazil (Amazonas) *''Epitausa olivescens'' <small>(Schaus, 1912)</small> French Guiana *''Epitausa pallescens'' <small>(Schaus, 1901)</small> Brazil (São Paulo) *''Epitausa patagonica'' <small>(Guenée, 1852)</small> Patagonia *''Epitausa pavescens'' <small>(Butler, 1879)</small> Brazil (Amazonas) *''Epitausa perserverans'' <small>(Walker, 1858)</small> Brazil (Amazonas, Para) *''Epitausa phanerosema'' <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small> Brazil *''Epitausa prona'' <small>(Möschler, 1880)</small> Panama, Suriname *''Epitausa rubripuncta'' <small>(Guenée, 1852)</small> Brazil (Amazonas), French Guiana *''Epitausa subinsulsa'' <small>(Dognin, 1912)</small> French Guiana *''Epitausa sublata'' <small>(Dognin, 1912)</small> Peru *''Epitausa terranea'' <small>(Schaus, 1911)</small> Costa Rica *''Epitausa venefica'' <small>(Möschler, 1880)</small> Suriname *''Epitausa violascens'' <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small> Brazil (Amazonas)
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Category:Eulepidotinae Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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