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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 normal fulvous band of the upperside replaced by pale yellowish-orange.
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= bernensis Meyer-Dur.Verz.Schmett.Schweiz.1852.1.p.152.pl.2.f.3.
Original description merely, "sub caeca". This presumably means the spots and bands almost absent. Meyer-Dur says that bernensis may be the same as nelamus. The forewing band is reduced to three or four small suffused spots, usually containing small black eyespots. Possibly both of these are racial but a large number of British specimens come under this description.
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No black eyespots on upper or underside.
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Forewings with the spots in the rust-brown band very small. Hindwings uniform brown. Presumably the hindwings show no rust-brown band or spots.
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On the upperside only the white pupils are visible, with no black surround.
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The ocelli strikingly enlarged. On the forewing the reddish-yellow band is very broad and reaches the median cell. The ocelli sometimes show white pupils above and below but sometimes are without pupils, but equally large. Hindwing with a broad reddish band with three large round ocelli without white pupils.
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The fulvous band of the forewing so wide that it reaches the discoidal cell. The figure shows the band of the hindwing half the width of the forewing band.
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Unusually broad bands on the upperside of the forewings, extending in rays and penetrating the discoidal cell. The ocelli very much reduced or absent.
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= nigerrima Le Charles.Bull.Soc.Ent.Fr.1927.p.138.pl.2.f.5.
The fulvous bands of the upperside completely absent, leaving the wings entirely black-brown. Le Charles' nigerrima had the upperside of the wings entirely black.
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