Syncopacma polychromella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae, it was described by Hans Rebel in 1902.
The wingspan is 7–10 mm.[1] The head is white. The thorax brown mixed with white. The forewings are pale brown with a post median jagged white band and a dark apical 1/3.
It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia, Greece and Russia, as well as on the Canary Islands, Sicily, Malta and Crete.[2] It is also present in Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Yemen, Central Asia (including Uzbekistan), Sudan, Namibia and South Africa. It has been recorded in Denmark, France, Great Britain and Ireland.[3] In Britain the moth was first recorded, in February 1952, at Bexley, Kent and the second at Hook, Surrey in February 1992; most likely as accidental introductions.[4] It has since been recorded as a migrant to England.[5]
In December 2015, during an extended period of airflow from as far south as the Azores, at least seventeen have been reported in southern England over three days (16 – 19 December).[6]
The larvae feed on Astragalus unifoliolatus.