Gomalia

Gomalia
Gomalia albofasciata, Asian Marbled Skipper, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Carcharodini
Genus:	Gomalia Moore, 1879
Synonyms
TavetanaPicard, 1949

Gomalia is a genus of marbled skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. There are three described species in Gomalia.

Gomalia albofasciata was formerly considered subspecies of Gomalia elma, and Gomalia jeanneli was formerly considered a synonym of Gomalia elma. They were both reinstated as full species as a result of genomic research published in 2020. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

These species belong to the genus Gomalia: ^{[1] [2]}

• Gomalia albofasciata Moore, 1879 (Asian marbled skipper)
• Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862) (green-marbled skipper or African marbled skipper)
• Gomalia jeanneli (Picard, 1949)

References

1. Zhang, Jing; Brockmann, Ernst; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; et al. (2020). "A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)". Zootaxa. 4748 (1): 182–194. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10 . PMC   8018707 . PMID   32230093.
2. "Gomalia". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-01.

Further reading

• Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Opler, Paul A.; et al. (2021). "Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy" (PDF). The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey. 9 (3). doi:10.5281/zenodo.5630311. ISSN   2643-4806. PMC   8794009 . PMID   35098146.