Epicauta is a genus of
beetles in the blister beetle family,
Meloidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1834 by
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean.
Epicauta is distributed nearly worldwide, with species native to all continents except
Australia. Surveys have found the genus to be particularly diverse in northern
Arizona in the United States. Few species occur in the
Arctic, with none farther north than the southern
Northwest Territory of Canada.