Melanargia epimede is an east Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in eastern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and Japan.

[1] Description in Seitz: "meridionalis Fldr.

(39 c) is a large form which is broadly black above and appears to occur chiefly at Ning-po and Kiu-kiang.

The ocelli of the underside especially are enormously developed.

— An aberration which is melanotic on both surfaces, bearing only reduced whitish smears between the veins on the otherwise quite dark wings, is ab.