Gomalia

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

Species

These species belong to the genus Gomalia:

Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. The species G. elma was #1270. The 'Larsen' number has been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana where the G. elma butterflies in West Africa are now described as G. westafra.

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Gomalia". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  3. ↑ Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.
  4. ↑ Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 170. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.

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