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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 ground colour whitish instead of the usual fulvous.
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Yellowish-brown with lighter black pattern, the basal area of the forewings yellowish-brown instead of yellowish-black.
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The black basal marking of the forewings replaced by whitish.
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All bands and spots white. Presumably this means the tawny areas, leaving the ground colour white.
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All the black bands reduced, allowing an extension of the ground colour.
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Much darker than the type [typical form]. The figure shows the tawny areas very much reduced on all wings, the extreme margins filled in with black, especially on the forewings. All wings show much more black than fulvous.
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= browni E.B.(Oberthür.in litt.).Cat.Lep.Fr.1923.p.72.,Cat.Lep.Gironde.1928.p.36.
The small black dots just before the margins are completely absent on all wings. The figure of browni in Lamb.35.pl.7.f.4 shows the marginal dots absent on all wings, the margins are said to be whitish-yellow instead of fulvous.
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= constellata Lambillion.Rev.Mens.Soc.Ent.Nam.1913.13.p.100.
The median spots of the hindwings upperside are white instead of tawny.
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The median spots of the hindwings upperside white as in ab. albomaculata Blachier but elongated into streaks instead of spots.
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Upperside of the hindwings uniformly black as far as the fulvous marginal band. The figure shows a slight trace of the median spots, probably showing through from the underside. Osthelder gives Vorbrodt as the author and Bang-Haas gives a reference Schmett.Schweiz.1911.1.p.105 but I can find no mention there [Goodson & Read].
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Small specimens measuring 11-12mm.
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