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Green Hairstreak 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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Description to be completed.

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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 (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.94.,see Ann.Soc.Ent.Fr.1887.p.216.)

Uniform very warm tawny yellow, less so at the base and below the costa, which is pointed with grey. Fringes quite white on all wings, the body tawny-yellow. Underside lively flesh colour shot with pale watery green.

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ab. cinerascens (Rebel.Berges.Schmett.Ed.9.1910.p.59.,not named by Schultz in Soc.Ent.19.p.9.)

The upperside ashy-grey or lead-grey.

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ab. amphlichloros (Cabeau.Rev.Mens.Soc.Ent.Nam.1923.23.p.25.)

On the upperside the wings are green as the underside.

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ab. pigmentocarens (Verity.Ent.Rec.1926.38.p.125.)

Discoloured appearance. Of a cold tone of dark grey rendered warmer in certain lights by a slight golden sheen because the lack of pigment in the scales makes them refract more light than usual.

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ab. suffusa (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.pp.91 and 97.)

The upperside of a somewhat sooty or black tint.

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ab. major (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.90.)

Large specimens above 32mm in size.

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ab. minor (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.90.)

Small specimens below 25 mm.

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ab. caerulescens (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

The underside of a bluish-green tint.

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ab. brunnea (Tutt.Brit.Butts.1896.p.196.)

= olivacea Blachier.Bull.Soc.Lep.Gen.1909.1.p.397.

The underside brownish instead of green. Blachier gives olive, although his coloured figure shows an almost black underside.

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ab. bipunctata (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

Two white spots on the underside of the hindwings, one at the costa, the other towards the centre.

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ab. incompleta (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

An incomplete row of white spots on the underside of the hindwings.

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ab. inferopunctata (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

Well-developed white spots on the underside of the hindwings only.

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ab. connexa (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

The white spots on the underside of the hindwings form a continuous line, those of the forewings almost so.

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ab. punctata (Tutt.Brit.Lep.1907.9.p.92.)

Well-developed white spots on both fore and hindwings underside.

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ab. caecus (Geoffroy.Hist.Ins.Paris.1785.2.p.245.)

= immaculata Fuchs.Jahrb.Nass.Ver.Nat.1891.44.p.211.

No white spots on the underside.

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ab. dennisorum (Campbell.Ent.Rec.2011.123.pp.239-240.)

White ‘hairstreak’ markings on the underside of the hindwings very well developed and distinctly enlarged, tending to radiate towards the outer margin.

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ab. radiata (Frost.Butts.of.Yorkshire.2005.)

= dennisorum Campbell.(syn.nov.).Ent.Rec.2011.123.pp.239-240.

DESCRIPTION ?

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