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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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The ground colour of the upperside brown instead of black.
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= albina Oberthür.Lep.Comp.1910.4.p.396.pl.37.f.238.
The ground colour of the upperside greyish-white instead of black. Oberthür's example was described from the same specimen.
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On the upperside of the forewings the two lowest white spots, those on the inner margin, are united to form a short white line, the other spots are normal in size.
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On the upperside of the forewings with two white horizontal lines just above the inner margin, caused by the union of the lower white spots of the two bands. Like ab. scabellata but with two short white lines instead of one.
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On the upperside of both fore and hindwings the white marginal spots, normally very small, are elongated into streaks or lines, giving a rayed effect. They do not connect up with the main row of spots nor with the chequered fringe from which they are separated by a thin black line. The rest of the markings normal.
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On the upperside of the forewings the outer transverse row of white spots are united with each other to form a complete white line from costa down to the inner margin. The fringes are not chequered. The hindwings markings are obsolete except for two narrow white marks on the costa. The black chequerings of the fringe are absent. Feroneural defect.
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Forewings on the upperside normal, the hindwings as in ab. taras, with only the one white spot in the centre and row of small white marginal spots. This is quite a common form and very different from ab. intermedia Oberthür of the same name, unfortunately preoccupied by this ab. intermedia. It is hardly intermediate between the type and taras, as Oberthür's form certainly is.
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The white markings of the upperside intermediate between the type and ab. taras. The white spots above the inner margin of the forewings are united into an oblong blotch and the discoidal spot is united with the next spot into another oblong blotch. Hindwings with a row of white marginal spots and one spot in the middle of the wing.
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= althaeae Esper.Eur.Schmett.178l.1.p.4 and p.149.
= fritillum Fabricius.Mantissa.Ina.1787.2.p.91.
= lavaterao Haworth.Lep.Brit.1803.p.52.
= alveolus Hübner.Samml.Eur.Schmett.1823.1.pl.171.f.847-8.
On the upper and underside the white spots of the forewings are confluent, forming a large white central area. Hindwings with the white spots reduced to a single one in the centre of the wing and a row of small white marginal spots.
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Described under P. malvoides Elwes & Edwards which is now regarded as a subspecies of malvae. Verity and Lempke therefore include it as an aberration of malvae. On the upperside of the forewings all the white spots are considerably elongated, enlarged, and tend to unite. On the hindwings, on the other hand, there only remains an antemarginal festoon and in the centre a white spot.
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The white markings of the upperside of the hindwings extensive in the same way as those of the forewings are in ab. taras. The forewings white spots however are small, only those around the discal cell being larger. The white streaks in the marginal area are very distinct.
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Described under P. malvoides, which is now regarded as a subspecies of malvae. The upperside intensely sprinkled with white atoms.
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On the upperside of the hindwings the white spots are united to form a band in the central area.
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= restricta Tutt.Brit.Lep.1906.8.p.224.
The spots of the forewings unusually small or reduced, some absent. Tutt's restricta had the spots of the fore and hindwings distinctly reduced, some quite obsolete.
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On the underside of the hindwings the central spot of the median band has a straight inner edge. A common aberration, the projection from this central spot is always slight and very little reduction of it makes it quite straight.
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On the underside of the hindwings the white spots of the transverse band are joined, whilst the fourth and sixth nervures show between them a white united spot.
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The underside is like ab. taras Bergsträsser, with the white spots of the forewings confluent. On the upperside the spots are not confluent but enlarged and well-marked. The chief character of the aberration is the confluence of spots on the underside of the forewings.
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The underside of a bright ruddy hue.
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Underside of the hindwings blackish-brown instead of the normal colour.
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