Esperia


 * For the concealer moth genus established by Hübner in 1825, see Esperia (moth). The brush-footed butterfly genus Esperia, invalidly established by Nekrutenko in 1987, is a junior synonym of Kirinia (e.g. Lattice Brown, K. roxelana).

Esperia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 110 km southeast of Rome and about 40 km southeast of Frosinone.

During the Second World War Esperia was one of the towns suffering heavily from "Marocchinate" - the mass rape committed after the Battle of Monte Cassino by Goumiers, Moroccan colonial troops of the French Expeditionary Corps. Esperia's mayor at the time reported that in his town, 700 women out of 2,500 inhabitants were raped and that some had died as a result.