Essex Skipper Aberrations

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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All Aberrations

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ab. nov

This section contains those aberrations that are considered new, and have yet to be formally defined.

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ab. pallida (Mosley.Nat.Journ.1896.Aug.Suppl.p.19.vol.5.)

= pallida Tutt.Brit.Butts.1896.Oct.p.136.
= ardens Oberthür.Lep.Comp.1910.4.p.356.pl.37.f.243.

The ground colour yellowish-white.

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ab. fulva (Lempke.Tijdschr.Ent.1953.96.p.252.)

The ground colour brownish-yellow, distinctly paler than typical.

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ab. clara (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

Clear golden brown with clear-cut narrow marginal black line. Now regarded as a continental race although Tutt described it as an aberration.

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ab. brunnea (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

The wings of a deep chocolate-brown.

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ab. suffusa (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

With well-developed margins and nervures, the discoidal nervure not black.

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ab. marginatus (Picard.Lamb.1948.48.p.40.)

Female. The upperside of the hindwings with a dark border enlarged to occupy one fifth of the wings.

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ab. sinelinea (Lempke.Tijdschr.Ent.1953.96.p.253.)

The androconial line on the upperside of the forewings is so pale that it is hardly, or not at all, to be seen.

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ab. antiardens (Lempke.Ent.Ber.(Amst.).1939.10.p.121.)

The black parts of the wings fail, leaving them uniform yellowish-brown. The form corresponds exactly with ab. antiardens Oberthür of T. sylvestris [Small Skipper]. Almost certainly an albino.

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ab. semicolon (Staudinger.Iris.1892.5.p.282.)

The discal streak of the male thicker and the little stroke beneath it blacker.

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ab. major (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

Large specimens 32-33mm. Considered to be a continental subspecies by Verity but was described as an aberration by Tutt.

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ab. major-clara (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

Large specimens, 32-33mm, of ab. clara Tutt.

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ab. intermedia (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.96.)

In size intermediate between the type and ab. major but having the heavier build of major. Size 30-31mm. Now regarded as a continental race so need not be used in Britain.

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