Erbenochile is a genus of spinose phacopid trilobite, of the family Acastidae, found in Lower to Middle Devonian age rocks from Algeria and Morocco.

[4] E. erbeni eyes allow full 360 degree coverage in the horizontal plane and were high enough to allow the trilobite to see backwards over its thorax.

The presence of eye shades, blocking glare from over head, validates the suggestion that (at least some) trilobites were diurnal and not nocturnal, "a detail of life habit which had previously been equivocal: Eyeshades are no use in the dark.

The frontal band of each of the lateral parts of the thorax segments (in the so-called pleural region) are not adorned.

Morzadec promoted Erbenochile to full genus status and moved it to Asteropyginae, by virtue of having pygidial spines, a character unknown in Odontochilinae.