Synonyms

• Homochelas heppneri Park, 1995 (original combination)
• Ethmiopsis heppneri (Park, 1995), Ponomarenko, 1997: 42.
• Encolapta heppneri (Park, 1995), Ponomarenko, 2004: 70.

Primary references

• Park, K.T. 1995. Gelechiidae of Taiwan. I. Review of Anarsia, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Tropical Lepidoptera 6(1 Part 2): 55–66. 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.