Gomalia elma

Forewing with a basal blackish-brown band, and an ante-medial darker band, the latter with its outer margin limited by a black thick line which extends from the sub-costal vein in an outward curve to the sub-median vein, its portion crossing the cell edged outwardly by a white lunular mark which closes the end of the cell, a white spot at the base of the second median interspace and another inwards below^ almost touching it, in the first median interspace, a large square blackish-brown patch on the costa limited outwardly by three sub-apical conjoined white spots, a similar but smaller patch at the apex, a larger similar patch on the middle of the outer margin, and a small narrow one at the hinder angle.

Cilia of both wings grey, marked in places with brown.

Forewing with a darker ante-medial outwardly curved band darker than the ground colour, a white and grey mark at the end of the cell, a broader, grey, discal, more outwardly curved band and a grey band on the lower two-thirds of the margin.

Antennae blackish, the underside of the shaft greyish-white; palpi and body beneath and the legs grey like the colour of the wings; palpi, head and body above brownish-olive, abdomen with whitish, thin segmental bands.

In Asia, the butterfly ranges from Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Pakistan (Baluchistan) and India.

African Marbled Skipper
Gomalia elma from United Arab Emirates
Early stage of Gomalia elma
Pupa of Marbled skipper Gomalia elma
Underside of Gomalia elma
Abutilon pannosum, a peri agricultural bushy plant seen in Hajar mountains in United Arab Emirates and Oman