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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 distinctly paler than usual, more yellow.
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Male with the ground colour of a beautiful and delicate purple tint or tinge.
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The ground colour of the forewings much redder than normal.
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Male with dull tawny ground colour.
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The upperside red-brown-yellow instead of the normal red.
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On the upperside of the forewings the submarginal spots are united transversely to form a band.
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On the upperside of the forewings the submarginal spots extend slightly towards the base with small dribbled spots extending them still more at their inner ends.
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Some or all of the submedian spots on the upperside of the forewings elongated towards the base but not reaching the discoidal spot.
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On the upperside of the forewings the submedian spots are lengthened inwards like arrowheads, two of them reaching and confluent with the discoidal spot.
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On the upperside of the forewings the submarginal spots are greatly increased in size and prolonged across the submarginal brown band to reach the base of the cilia. Hindwings with the black spots so enlarged and lengthened as to fill up entirely the interneural space as far as the edge of the copper band.
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Male. On the upperside of the forewings a few submedian spots near the costa.
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On the forewings the discal spot is elongated towards the base without however reaching the outer basal spot.
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On the upperside of the forewings a long wedge-shaped streak from the discoidal spot downwards to the base, formed by the union of the two basal spots and the discoidal.
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On the upperside the spots are very small.
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On the upperside the spots are quite absent.
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= paucipuncta Courvoisier.Iris.1912.26.p.63.
The spots of the forewings upperside tending to obsolescence.
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The upperside of the forewings more or less powdered with black scales.
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On the upperside of the hindwings the costa is broadly black.
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Male. The black cell-spot on the upperside of the hindwings fails.
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On the upperside of the hindwings the red marginal band is strongly enlarged.
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On the upperside of the male there is a row of antemarginal black points showing in the same position as those of the underside.
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= posticeoatrata Mezger.Lamb.1931.31.p.22.
Female. The upperside of the hindwings uniformly blackish-brown from the red marginal band to the base. Mezger’s form had the hindwings entirely of a beautiful velvety black except for the red marginal band.
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Female. The upperside of the hindwings almost unicolorous and spotted. Tutt does not mention the red band but presumably it is present. The form is little different from ab. nigreescens Tutt which, by the name, is darker.
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Female. Upperside of the hindwings blackish-brown with fine copper nervures stretching from the copper band towards the base.
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Female. Upperside of the hindwings with the portion nearest the copper band divided into marked wedge-shaped spots.
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Female. Upperside of the hindwings with the basal area somewhat paler than usual with two rows of transverse spots, one row outwardly circling the discoidal spot, the other preceding the copper marginal band.
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Female. Upperside of the hindwings with one row of black spots circling the discoidal spot.
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Small specimens under 34mm in size.
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On the underside all black spots are distinctly reduced in size.
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On the underside of the forewings basal spots appearing where normally there are no spots.
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On the underside extra small spots appearing where normally there are no spots, usually situated in the discoidal-submarginal area.
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On the underside of the forewings the two discal spots are joined by a streak.
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Some authors include this Oberthür form in dispar. This is incorrect, it belonged to Lycaena hippothoe [Purple-edged Copper] and is the specimen mentioned in Ann.Soc.Ent.Fr.1858.p.306 by Bellier.
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On the underside the submarginal spots on all wings are replaced by long very thick black streaks travelling outwards towards the margins.
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