Metabolaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Gelechiinae
Genus:	Metabolaea Meyrick, 1923
Species:	M. chlorophthalma
Binomial name
Metabolaea chlorophthalma Meyrick, 1923

Metabolaea is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Metabolaea chlorophthalma, which is found in Brazil.^[1]

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are light grey closely and finely speckled white with some scattered black scales and a tuft of blackish and white scales beneath the fold at one-third, some black scales tending to form a line along the fold towards this. There are two pale ochreous tufts surrounded with blackish and white scales transversely placed in the disc at two-thirds and a fine black longitudinal line from between these to the termen more or less indicated. There are also indistinct blackish marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey-whitish, thinly scaled and suffused grey posteriorly.^[2]