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This page provides access to all named aberrations of a given species and Goodson & Read (1969) is a key resource in this regard.
Description to be completed.
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This section contains those aberrations that are considered new, and have yet to be formally defined.
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All wings pale straw.
Natural History Museum
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More golden-brown than the fuscous type form, the pale markings blending more markedly with the ground colour. Raised by Verity to the rank of subspecies in Farf.Diurn.It.1943.
Natural History Museum
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Extreme British males are very dark and tinged with green. Verity raises this to subspecific rank in his Farf.Diurn.It. but it certainly is not constant in Britain, the name is therefore left in these British aberrations as occurring occasionally in this class.
Natural History Museum
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With distinct pale markings on the hindwings as well as on the forewings. The type has them only on the forewings.
Natural History Museum
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With the usual pale markings absent on the forewings and the hindwings typical, with no markings.
Natural History Museum
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The angulated row of pale spots on the forewings unites with the discoidal spot making a blotch, which occupies the greater part of the costal area from the angulated row almost to the base.
Natural History Museum
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Female. The spots on the upperside pale yellow to yellowish-white.
Natural History Museum
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Female. On the upperside both fore and hindwings have a black ground colour instead of the normal golden-olive, the basal halves have a thin coating of pale straw-coloured scales. The crescentic band of linear markings on the forewings is pure white, the fringes greyish-yellow, the overall effect being black and white. Underside pale yellow except for the cream-coloured band.
Natural History Museum
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