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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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Male. A pale shade of blue-grey replacing the purple tint.
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Male. The usual dark violet colour replaced by glossy blue similar in tint to the central patch of the female.
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Female. The usual purple patch is of a blue tint. This can only be seen if viewed in certain lights.
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Female. Completely blue forewings, only the veins and a thin margin remaining black. Bred from larva.
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Female. The upper portion of the purple patch on the forewings is absent, the lower part normal in colour.
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Female. The purple patch on the forewings so much reduced that it can hardly be noticed.
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= bellus Gerhard.Monogr.Beitr.Schmett.(Lycaen.).1853.p.4.pl.4.f.2.
Female. An orange-brownish spot at the end of the discoidal cell of the forewings sometimes a second one close to it.
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Female. With a wedge-shaped spot of orange or brown, very brightly marked, just outside the discoidal cell. Quite unnecessary as covered by ab. flavimaculatus Lienard.
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Female. With a wedge-shaped orange spot just outside the discoidal cell and another just below it. Quite unnecessary as covered by ab. flavimaculatus Lienard.
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Female. With three orange spots on the forewings and a well-marked streak running along the inner margin from the anal angle to rather more than half way towards the base. Quite unnecessary as covered by ab. flavimaculatus Lienard.
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Female. Only the faintest possible trace of a light spot at the end of the discoidal spot of the forewings. Quite unnecessary as covered by ab. flavimaculatus Lienard.
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Large specimens above 38mm.
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Small specimens below 30mm.
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= inframaculata Lempke.Tijdschr.Ent.1956.98.p.323.
Unusual development of orange in the antemarginal band on the underside of the forewings, especially towards the anal angle. Lempke's inframaculata had two large yellow-brown spots before the outer border of the forewings in cells 1 and 2.
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On the underside of the forewings the spots before the outer margin, usually orange, are yellow.
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On the underside of the hindwings the black central point of the anal orange patch, fails.
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= albovirgata Oberthür.Lep.Comp.1910.4.p.60.
On the underside of the hindwings the “thecla band” is strikingly broad. Oberthür says the white band is similar to Tutt's albovirgata in Satyrium w-album [White-letter Hairstreak].
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