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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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The veins coarser and ending in triangular patches at their marginal ends, sometimes almost forming a blackish marginal band.
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The ends of the veins without dark triangles at the margins, the female pure white without the transparent middle field. Lempke classes this form as an aberration, not a subspecies.
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The wings with no scales, giving a greyish transparent appearance.
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On both fore and hindwings the end of the cell is marked with a well-defined patch of dark scales. These scales form an oblong mark along the bars closing the cells but are much heavier than the discoidal spot such as is seen in ab. lunulata Tutt.
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Hindwings showing a well-marked discoidal lunule. Normally there is only a vein of the same thickness as the other veins.
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Hindwings with thickly dusted black scales in the discoidal area, spreading towards the margin in the interneural spaces.
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Hindwings with a distinct marginal band of black scales reminding one a little of Colias croceus [Clouded Yellow]. An extreme suffusa form.
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On the upperside of the forewings the dark suffusion along the discocellular vein fails completely. All other margins normal.
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Aigner’s first description is most brief, merely ‘melanic form’ but in Ent.X.19.p.17 he gives a figure reference - Illust.Z.fur.Ent.1898.3.p.359. The figure on this page shows the wings smoky black with a paler area in the disc of the forewing and this is the specimen he named.
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Uniformly deep black on upper and underside.
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The underside of the hindwings strongly dusted with black scales along and between the veins.
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Underside of the hindwings showing a yellow macule in the costal margin. This is presumably at the base.
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= infraochreata Verity.Ent.Rec.1919.31.p.88.
Underside of the female quite yellow. Verity’s form had the underside ochreous.
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= minima Cabeau.Rev.Mens.Soc.Ent.Nam.1925.25.p.5.
Very small examples.
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The veins absent so consequently the marginal triangles are missing. The whole marging indistinctly brown, the median cell bar weakly indicated, the interneural folds of the hindwings faintly blackened and the margin suffused with blackish.
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