Gomalia litoralis Swinhoe, 1885, stat. rest. is a valid species distinct from Gomalia albofasciata F. Moore, 1879

Genomic analysis of Gomalia F. Moore, 1879 (type species Gomalia albofasciata F. Moore, 1879) specimens from Oman and Yemen reveals that they partition into two clades (Fig. 104). One male (NVG-24054D01, Oman, Rustaq, 5-Mar-1979, T. B. Larsen leg. [ZMUC], Fig. 105b) is placed with Gomalia jeanneli levana Benyamini, 1990 (type locality in Israel), is phenotypically similar to it in being ventrally pale with a diffuse cream band and small size, and we identify it as this subspecies. Other specimens (T. B. Larsen leg. in ZMUC from Oman: 1♂ NVG-24054B04 Al Batinah Region, Barka 4-Mar-1979, Fig. 105c and 1 ♀ NVG-24054B05 Rustaq, 5-Mar-1979, Fig. 105d, and 1 ♂ NVG-24054B06 Yemen, Wadi Dahr, N of Sana'a, 10-May-1980) are larger, with more extensive and better-defined cream bands, and are in the clade with Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862) (type locality in South Africa) (Fig. 106c, d), thus being more distant from G. albofasciata (type locality in Sri Lanka) (Fig. 105e) and Gomalia jeanneli (Picard, 1949) (type locality in Kenya) (Fig. 105a), and are genetically differentiated from them all at the species level (Fig. 104), e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 1.7% (11 bp) from G. elma and by 5.6% (37 bp) from G. albofasciata . Therefore, these specimens represent a distinct species that we identified as Gomalia litoralis Swinhoe, 1885 (type locality Pakistan: Karachi), which is currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of G. albofasciata . Therefore, we propose that Gomalia litoralis Swinhoe, 1885, stat. rest. is a valid species distinct from Gomalia albofasciata F. Moore, 1879 .