| Name | Epithemia Kützing |
| Authorship | Kützing |
| Rank | Genus |
| Placed in | Rhopalodiaceae Topachevs'kyj & Oksiyuk |
| Contains | Epithemia constricta W. Smith Epithemia goeppertiana Hilse Epithemia intermedia Fricke Epithemia musculus Kützing Epithemia rabenhorstii Wartmann Epithemia sorex Kützing Epithemia sp. Hilse Epithemia ventricosa Kützing Epithemia zebra (Ehrenberg) Kützing |
| Remarks | Substitute name for Epithema Brébisson 1838, non Blume 1826. Lectotype: E. turgida (C. G. Ehrenberg) Kuetzing (Eunotia turgida C. G. Ehrenberg) (vide Boyer, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 79 Suppl. 488. 1928) |
| Citation | 1844 [7-9 Nov 1844] Kieselschal. Bacill. 33 |