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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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= intermedia Tutt.(nom.preoc.Rühl).Brit.Butts.1896.p.388.
The markings not yellow but pale fulvous. These specimens rarely reach the orange-brown colour of the Continental subspecies intermedia Rühl. Tutt's intermedia was merely an aberration occurring among the British race egerides and Lempke renamed it to avoid confusion.
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= intermedia Seitz.(nom.preoc.Rühl).Seitz.Macrolep.1909.1.p.133.
Some of the spots of the upperside yellowish-white, the others brownish, at least on their edges.
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= albiplaga Warnecke.Iris.1942.56.p.102.
All wings dark fuscous with whitish markings instead of yellow. Warnecke’s albiplaga had the spots white, therefore hardly separable.
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Ground colour pale brown-grey instead of fuscous, the patterning of a paler tint. The eyespots on the contrary are normal with a black surround. Underside with the patterning very weak, i.e. pale and dull yellow. Translation by Lempke [Goodson & Read].
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All the dark parts silvery-grey instead of fuscous, the yellow markings normal.
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The dark parts of the wings so reduced as to resemble a female megera [Lasiommata megera, Wall].
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The apical eye of the forewing containing two white pupils.
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The apical eye of the forewing not pupilled with white.
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The apical eye of the forewing elongated.
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All the eyespots of the fore and hindwing uppersides are blind, not pupilled with white.
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The eyespots on the upperside of the hindwing blind, not pupilled with white.
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The eyespots on the upperside of the wings distinctly reduced in size.
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The number of eyespots on the upperside of the wings strongly reduced.
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An extra ocellus or ocelli beneath the main apical eyespot of the forewing, cell 3 being the most usual position. The form is apparently rare compared with the same one in megera [Lasiommata megera, Wall].
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An extra ocellus at the anal angle of the hindwing upperside.
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On the hindwing upperside in the fourth marginal yellow spot, counting from the anal angle, there is a black spot.
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Forewing upperside showing a complete band of yellow spots in the margin, the spot appearing in cell 3 is not usually in evidence. Erroneously placed under megera [Lasiommata megera, Wall] in Seitz.Macrolep.I.
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Upperside of forewings with strongly broadened brown-yellow markings. The usual brown-yellow spots form a broad uninterrupted yellowish-white band. Also, on the outer margin, there is a long dark brown spot. Named marginata because of forewing band.
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The yellow spots in cells 1, 2 and 3 joined to the median cell and the two pale spots in the median cell are confluent. Hindwing spots much larger than usual. Underside without markings.
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On the upperside of the hindwings there is a light spot in the median area, which is elongated upwards and joins the one on the costal border.
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The two dark bands running across the cell of the forewing absent, giving the wing a paler appearance.
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Hindwing upperside with the yellow band before the margin strongly enlarged and only divided by dark nervures, coalescing with the yellow spot at the end of the cell.
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Hindwing upperside with the pale spots on the costa and at the end of the cell absent.
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= fusca Hackett.Entom.1958.91.p.114.
Only four yellow spots remain on the forewing. The two lowest marginal ones near the tornus are absent and the two, one above and one below the apical eye are very small. The yellow band on the hindwing is completely obliterated. Hackett's fusca is so similar that it would be difficult to draw a line. Fore and hindwings blackish-brown except for two white dots, one above and one below the apical eye, and three other very faint traces of the usual speckles. Two of these are on the forewings, one on the edge of the discal cell, the other in the central area just above the median vein, the third on the hindwings below the costal margin. Unless the types are seen it would be difficult to know by these descriptions if they are different.
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Male. On the forewings the outer costal spot, the spot immediately below it, and a third one touching the eyespot on its lower side, remain normal. The other spots are visible but so much obscured that they are hardly lighter than the dark ground colour. Hindwings with the costal and postdiscal spots present but the ocellated marginal band strongly reduced. Transitional to saturatior Crombrugghe but differs chiefly on the hindwings, which still show the marginal band of ocellated spots, these are absent in both ab. saturatior and ab. fusca Hackett.
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The upperside of the hindwing showing pale nervures.
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Underside with the greenish parts replaced by obscure grey-brown.
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Underside of the hindwings normal from the base to the median line, from which, outwards to the margins, they are completely black-brown, almost black, this area forming a wide band in striking contrast to the rest of the wing.
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The underside of the hindwings nearly unicolorous dark brown.
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Underside of the hindwings yellowish in colour with weak darker markings.
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Underside of the hindwings with two strikingly distinct lines, which border the central area on both sides.
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Small specimens below 34mm.
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Underside of forewings with the colour more contrasted and markings tending to become confluent, with a clear black streak in the inner pale area. Hindwings with a greater divergence, the ground colour basally darker and more solid, instead of appearing as a lighter inner portion succeeded by a darker zone; the terminal band much darker and more uniform in colour becoming black in the areas surrounding the four tiny white spots which replace the normal white pupilled eyespots. On the upperside the terminal band of lightish spots has each individual spot narrower and that towards the base obsolescent. Hindwings with the black spots white-pupilled, occupying a greater proportion of the reduced lighter patches. Presumably more aberrant on the underside which, here, is described first.
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