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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.
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This section contains those aberrations that are considered new, and have yet to be formally defined.
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Female with the ground colour brownish-red instead of the normal yellowish-red, almost as fiery as the male colour. Described under the race chlorodippe.
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Very dark females, the upperside smoky with weakly violet reflections.
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Albino. All the usual black markings replaced by dull silver.
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Upperside of the forewings with the base much suffused and the black spots somewhat enlarged and united.
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The median spots of fore and hindwings coalescing or confluent, forming a band. It is rather doubtful if Blachier actually named this form in adippe, he says it is analogous to his ab. fasciata in A. niobe [Argynnis niobe, Niobe Fritillary], which is a very strongly banded form, and that similar banded forms occur in euphrosyne [Boloria euphrosyne, Pearl-bordered Fritillary], aglaia [Argynnis aglaja, Dark Green Fritillary] and latonia [Issoria lathonia, Queen of Spain Fritillary]. Verity accepts them all in his Farf.Diurn.It. so it is included here.
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The median black spots of the fore and hindwings very large and more or less quadrangular, thus dividing the wings into two parts. The figure shows the spots little larger than normal except the last but one, which is certainly lengthened into quadrangular shape. The form is not a banded one.
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Upperside of the forewings with the cell partly filled with black. The submarginal spots unite with the marginal spots in the form of rays, the border itself being black. Hindwings entirely black except for streaks or rays of fulvous ground colour in the margins. Underside of forewings with the cell and interneural spaces in the basal area and disc filled with black, the submarginal spots present to some extent, the reddish-yellow border with no markings at all. Hindwings with the basal area showing three long broad silver stripes, the median area a rusty-brown band composed of spots with traces of Mother of Pearl shading, the margins with elongated silver moons.
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Accentuated melanism. The reddish-yellow ground colour of the wings reduced to little patches. On the forewings the black submarginal spots are fused with the marginal lunules and the median black spots are much more extended thus reducing the reddish-yellow area. On the hindwings the black area is also more developed, of the normal ground colour there only remains small narrow marginal patches and a transverse row of submarginal ones, broader and oval in shape. The large black basal area contributes to the melanic character. The underside of the forewings typical except that the median black spots are larger and the black submarginal ones absent or almost so. The underside of the hindwings is completely different from the typical form and from ab. cleodoxa Ochsenheimer, all trace of silver spots is lacking, even the silver pupilled maroon ocelli, which are seen in ab. cleodoxa, are absent. The entire wings are uniform greenish-yellow, only in the marginal area is there a row of maroon spots bordered interiorly with a complete row of greenish spots.
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The figure shows the forewings black except for an oblong spot of ground colour in cell near costa, the base being of normal colour. The margins are normal but slightly dusky, the veins outlined in black. Hindwings slightly greenish but more or less normal.
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Upperside of forewings black except for an oblong spot of normal ground in the cell near costa, and the base, which is of normal colour. The margins not so black as the rest of the wings but the veins heavily dusted with black forming distinct rays. Hindwings dusky, except the basal half (from the median row of black spots), which is bright orange, and in striking contrast to the outer dusky half. The marginal moons are also bright orange. Underside almost normal. Very similar to ab. toroki Aigner but with darker hindwings.
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The figure shows the forewings with most of the black spots absent. The bar at the end of the call is present and a faint indication of the submarginal spots, the median spots are only present from the costa down to the middle of the wings. Hindwings with the row of submarginal spots absent.
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Upperside of the hindwings with the median band of black spots absent. On the underside this row of corresponding silver spots are not enclosed on the side nearest the base.
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Underside of hindwings of a unicolorous red-brown with hardly a trace of yellow and with sharply contrasting silver spots. Forewings also browner than normal.
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Underside of forewings whitish-yellow. Hindwings bright yellow almost without any green, and the brown strongly reduced. The silver spots without gloss. Upperside dull yellow, the black markings reduced.
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Underside of hindwings with a rusty-brown band situated between the submarginal spots and the central series of silver spots.
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= hemicleodoxa Newnham.Lep.Church.Stretton.List.1900.p.126.
Underside of the hindwings with the outer row of silver spots absent, i.e. with no silver. The silver spots at the tip of the forewing are normal.
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Underside with the silver spots almost absent.
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= cleodoxa Ochsenheimer.(nom.preoc.Esper).Schmett.Eur.1816.4.p.118.
The silver median and marginal spots of the underside replaced by yellow, the submarginal ones with silver centres. Verity renames the form because Esper used cleodoxa for a form of A. niobe [Argynnis niobe, Niobe Fritillary], but under the new rules regarding aberrations it is not necessary [Goodson & Read].
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On the underside the yellow tint, which replaces the silver spots in ab. cleodoxa Ochsenheimer, is of a much darker tint of ochreous-yellow.
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On the underside of the forewings there is a large wedge-shaped black mark in the centre.
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On the underside of the forewings the two black spots of the submarginal row, the second and third from bottom, are much accentuated, the lower one being pupilled with whitish.
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