Thiotricha syncentritis

Thiotricha syncentritis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1935. It is found on Java in Indonesia.^[1]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are grey whitish with a faint tinge of tannish peach and with a slender blackish longitudinal supramedian streak from the base to the apex, and another rising from the base of the dorsum, running subdorsal and gradually converging to meet the first at the apex. There is a very oblique blackish striga from the costa at four-fifths also meeting these at the apex. There is a suffused dark grey line along the fold throughout, and another along the dorsum and termen throughout. The hindwings are bluish hyaline (glass like), minutely freckled with grey and with the veins dark grey, the costa and termen narrowly suffused with dark grey.

The larvae feed in the shoots of .^[2]

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