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Gomalia

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

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Gomalia
Gomalia albofasciata, Asian Marbled Skipper, India
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Tribe: Carcharodini
Genus: Gomalia
Moore, 1879
Synonyms
  • Tavetana Picard, 1949
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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)

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