Synonyms

• Homoshelas epichthonia Meyrick, 1935 (original combination)
• Ethmiopsis epichthonia (Meyrick, 1935), Ponomarenko, 1997: 42.
• Encolapta epichthonia (Meyrick, 1935), Ponomarenko, 2004: 70.

Primary references

• Meyrick, E., 1935. Gelechiadae. In: Caradja, A. & Meyrick, E. Materialien zu einer Microlepidopteren-Fauna der chinesischen Provinzen Kiangsu, Chekiang und Hunan, R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin: 65–75. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ponomarenko, M.G. 1997. Catalogue of the subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia. Far Eastern entomologist 50: 1–67. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Ponomarenko, M.G. 2004. Gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae): functional morphology, evolution and taxonomy. In: Storozhenko, S.Y. (Ed.). Readings in Memory of Aleksandr Ivanovich Kurentsov, Dalínauka, Vladivostok 15: 5–88. Reference page. 

• Yang, M-Q. & Li, H-H. 2016. Review of the genus Encolapta Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae: Chelariini) from China, with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 4193(2): 201–227. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.1. Reference page.