Gomalia albofasciata

Gomalia albofasciata
Gomalia albofasciata, Asian marbled skipper, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Gomalia
Species:	G. albofasciata
Binomial name
Gomalia albofasciata Moore, 1879

Gomalia albofasciata, the Asian marbled skipper, is a species of spread-wing skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.

This species was formerly a subspecies of Gomalia elma , but was elevated in rank to species as a result of genomic research published in 2020. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 38. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
3. "Gomalia elma albofasciata". 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.