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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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All the pale portions of the wings white.
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The ground colour of a peculiar dull brassy yellow, the black markings less intense and dark.
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The ground colour more towards that of antiopa [Nymphalis antiopa, Camberwell Beauty], or between it and io [Aglais io, Peacock], the yellow costal spaces covered by the same tint. The margins and black spots considerably reduced, the blue lunules appearing lighter in contrast.
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The ground colour of a fine deep warm tint, otherwise normal. This description hardly implies a colour of any sort [Goodson & Read].
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The two discal spots on the forewings are distinctly smaller than usual.
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The two discal spots of the forewings are distinctly enlarged.
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The two discal spots of the forewings distinctly lengthened.
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The forewings with an extra discal spot, lying between the two black spots above the inner margin, and therefore just beneath the two normal discal spots.
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On the forewings a black suffusion extends from the middle black costal blotch down to the large black spot below it near the inner margin.
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On the upperside of the forewings a striking yellow spot or blotch on the outer side of the second black spot on the inner margin. This would be the outer of the two spots.
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The figure shows a black stripe along the inner margin of the forewings starting at the tornus and running horizontally to the centre of the wing or slightly beyond.
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On the forewings the yellow costal spots are absent.
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Forewings with a row of large black spots at the margin on the inside of which there is a row of yellow spots. The costal spots are lighter than normal. Hindwings with the yellow costal blotch almost as large as the black blotch.
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= circumpunctata Cabeau.Lamb.1926.26.p.18.,fig.Lamb.32.pl.12.f.2.
= punctate Bois-Reymond.Z.Wiss.Ins.Biol.(1931-32)1931.26.p.33.
= supinskia Wize.Polsk.Pismo.Ent.1934.13.p.106.
On the hindwings there are five small black spots on the inside of the marginal band.
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On the hindwings the large black costal spot is completely absent and in its place is yellowish scaling, forming a light spot.
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The forewings with three diffused blue spots in the central part of the outer margin. The black basal spot and the two black spots on the inner margin are diffused or faded and the outer margin is not broadened only diffused, the brown colour is not darker but much lighter. Hindwings with somewhat enlarged blue marginal spots and a diffusion of the black basal spot. The general appearance is very diffused, with faded spots, partly distorted and broadened. The underside somewhat similar to ab. dixeyi Standfuss.
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The figure shows the forewings with the large black spot on the inner margin absent, other markings somewhat diffused. The margin shows extremely wide blue spots separated by the veins. Hindwings with the outer half very much more yellow than normal, the blue marginal lunules separated by yellow. Underside with the margins not blackish but showing blue lunules.
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On the forewings the spot nearest the base is distinctly divided into two.
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The three black costal spots of the forewings all joined into one long blotch or bar with just a trace of normal ground colour in its lower half. The two black spots on the inner margin are also united and the marginal band is not dark but of the same colour as the rest of the wing except for traces of darker colour in its centre, it is cut by the black veins. Hindwings blackish, the margins showing dusky yellow lunules.
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Like ab. testudo Esper but brighter and showing bright and strong blue lunules in the margins.
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Forewings with the upper two black costal spots united into a bar or blotch, the lower one separated. Instead of the normal dark marginal band there are yellow and black rays and the twin discal spots are absent. Hindwings black with an antemarginal yellowish band and yellowish marginal lunules.
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Close to ab. testudo Esper but differs by the black pattern being more diffused and extensive, all the black markings are liked with each other, the whole wing therefore black with the exception of the basal area, which is normal, and an area adjoining it of normal ground colour but very small in extent. The figure shows the three black costal spots of the forewings all united into one stripe and all other spots joined to form long black stripes which cover the wing except for a small area from the centre of the wing to the base which is of normal colour. The dark margin is divided by wedge-shaped rays of orange-brown and shows a row of yellow spots starting at the apex of the costa and extending half way down the wing. Hindwings black, except the base, which is normal, with rays or wedges of orange-brown in the margin reaching upwards to the centre of the wing.
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Hindwings completely black. The type shows only a little normal brownish ground colour along the costa. The blue lunules fail.
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= pygmaea Slevogt.Horae.Soc.Ent.Ross.1900.34.p.532.
Smaller than normal and slightly darker, otherwise typical. Slevogt gives 2.1cm as the size.
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