''Gomalia'' is a genus of marbled skippers in the

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

family

Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

. 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'': * '' 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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