  We examine varieties of epigroups as unary semigroups, that is semigroups
equipped with an additional unary operation of pseudoinversion. The article
contains two main results. The first of them indicates a countably infinite
family of injective endomorphisms of the lattice of all epigroup varieties. An
epigroup variety is said to be a variety of finite degree if all its
nilsemigroups are nilpotent. The second result of the article provides a
characterization of epigroup varieties of finite degree in a language of
identities and in terms of minimal forbidden subvarieties. Note that the first
result is essentially used in the proof of the second one.
