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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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= biocellata Hartig.Ent.Rundsch.1924.41.p.42.
On the forewing the two eyes in the red band are blind, with no white pupils. The red band is only a red circle. Hartig's biocellata had deep black unpupilled eyes, two in number, on upper and underside of the forewing. Hindwing with three fulvous spots in place of the normal band, each with a black point. Hartig sinks his biocellata as a synonym in Studi Trentini 1930.2.
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= depupillata Osthelder.(nom.preoc.Stein.).Schmett.Sudbayern.1925.p.119.
The ocelli without pupils. Similar to ab. reducta but presumably may have any number of blind ocelli, reducta has only two.
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On the upperside some of the ocelli are blind, without white pupils, the others normal.
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On the upperside of the hindwing the ocelli in the band are blind, without the normal white centres.
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Of the ocelli only the white pupils remain. The figure shows all four wings with tiny white points.
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The number of ocelli unequal on opposite sides.
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On the forewing upperside the red band shows a very small apical white centred spot with an even smaller one beneath it, a mere black point. The hindwing band is broken up into four fulvous macules, each containing an ocellus. On the underside the forewing shows no ocelli at all. Oberthür in Bull.Soc.Ent.Fr.1916.p.154 says that fritschi is the same as ab. royi Clement but this is not so, royi has no ocelli on the upperside of the forewing.
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The submarginal band of the forewing normal but containing only two ocelli, reduced in size and completely separated but still with white pupils which are equally visible on the underside. Similar to ab. fritschi Oberthür which, however, does not show the ocelli on the underside.
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Upperside of the forewing showing four ocelli in the red band.
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= pentaocellata Rocci.Mem.Soc.Ent.It.1923.2.p.8.
Forewing with five ocellated spots in the red band, all pupilled with white. Hindwing with four similar spots. Oberthür describes and figures this form but also mentions a more extreme form figured by Freyer in Neu.Beitr.pl.38.f.2, which has six ocelli on the forewing. Since Oberthür figures the five-spotted form it must be taken as freyeri, the six-spotted form has since been named croesus.
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Forewing showing six ocellated spots in the red band, four of them large, a fifth smaller one beneath these, and a sixth tiny one above the apical spot.
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= royi Clement.Bull.Soc.Ent.Fr.1916.p.126.fig.p.127.
On the upperside of the forewing the red band is of normal width but shows no trace of ocelli, the underside being similar. Hindwing with three fulvous spots in place of the normal band each containing an ocellus with white pupil. On the underside the ocelli are absent as on the forewing.
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On the upperside there are no ocelli in the red band of the forewing. Since only the upperside is stressed it must be assumed that the underside is normal and therefore not the same as ab. dehermanni Dehermann in which they are absent.
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Similar to ab. dehermanni Dehermann, with no ocelli on the forewing above or below, but the red band is narrow, rudimentary, whilst in dehermanni it is of normal width.
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The ocelli of all wings completely absent above and below. The red band is of normal width. Hindwing with the band broken up into five fulvous spots with no trace of spots.
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On the hindwing the white-pupilled ocelli are absent in the submarginal band, which is composed of red macules. Presumably the upperside.
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On the underside of the hindwing the ocelli are absent, but present on the upperside.
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The red band of the forewing upperside is restricted to a small portion surrounding the apical ocellus and continued downwards briefly in the form of a triangle.
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On the underside of the forewing the inner border of the red submarginal band is not sharply defined but prolonged diffusely towards the basal part of the wing.
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The band of the forewing restricted to mere rings of red-brown surrounding the ocelli, giving the insect a very dark appearance.
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Hindwing with the red-brown band quite obsolete.
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On the forewing upperside the band is of a pale yellowish instead of red-brown.
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The band on the upperside of the forewing veiled over with black dusting, its normal position still showing. The white pupils on the hindwing stand out in a narrow veiled band. The underside is dusted with black.
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The bands of the upperside are of a varying shade of heliotrope, darker in the males than in females.
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Female with the ground colour greyer than normal and the fulvous bands restricted to circles round the ocelli.
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= semialbina Verity.Ent.Rec.1916.28.p.133.,spelling corrected.
The costa and a large area between the ocelli and the margin of all wings, is of a dirty white, the rest light chestnut.
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The figure shows a male with the ground colour pale orange-brown, becoming greyish-brown at the margin. The normally red bands are pale chestnut, the black ocelli are replaced by greyish. Presumably an albino.
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= ochracea Tutt.Brit.Butts.1896.p.430.
= luteofasciata Rocci.Mem.Soc.Ent.It.1923.2.p.8.
On the underside the female has the basal and subterminal bands of the hindwing ochreous, instead of grey.
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= albafasciata Osthelder.Schmett.Sudbayern.1925.1.p.118.
Named from the plate in Freyer's Neu.Beitr.pl.35.figs.3-4.1833 in which it is called neoridas Bsd. This shows the underside with the basal and subterminal bands pale grey in the male and whitish-grey in the female. They are not pure white as some authors state.
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Male with the underside paly grey and the bands lighter than normal.
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On the underside of the hindwing the silver scaling of the submarginal band covers almost the entire wing, completely obliterating any trace of the usual bands. The forewing band is very broad. Two specimens of this rare form were taken at Arnside in 1950 and 1951.
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On the underside of both fore and hindwings the bands are almost obsolete and the spots very small.
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