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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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= margarita Frohawk.Vars.Brit Butts.1938.p.195.pl.47.f.2.
The ground colour extremely pale, yellowish-white. Tutt's pallida was bone-coloured or whitish, tinged with yellow. Frohawk's margarita was yellowish-white. Lempke includes ardens Oberthür as a synonym but Oberthür says that this was an aberration of T. lineola [Essex Skipper].
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The ground colour pale straw-yellow. This is less whitish than pallida.
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Forewings upperside with a whitish cloud or spot in the centre, also seen on the underside. Hindwings with a similar white mark on the upperside only.
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The forewings of a silver bone-colour, the hindwings shot with iridescent green.
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= antiardens Oberthür.Lep.Comp.1910.4.p.666.pl.37.f.242.,description p.357.
The body and blackish parts of the wings of a yellowish-blond, paler than the normal ground colour. The discal streak of the forewings is silver-grey.
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The discal streak of the male, usually broken on vein 2, shows no sign of a break.
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A wide black border reaching from the margin half way to the discal cell, its inner edge extending along the veins in elongated serrations. The discocellulars black.
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A wide border as in latenigra Verity but of a pale grey instead of black.
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Rather darker than typical ground colour, being particularly suffused on the hindwings.
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Dark brown on all wings.
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Forewings from the base to the anal angle, right round for some distance into the costa, broadly suffused with dark greenish. Hindwings quite as dark as those of T. acteon, the small proportion of tawny showing up vividly.
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Verity credits Tutt with this name and says it is the same form as found in T. lineola, which was of a deep chocolate brown. Tutt did not name any brunnea so the name and description must be under Verity. It would appear that Verity meant suffusa Tutt, but chocolate-brown is rather different from just dark brown, the tint given by Tutt for sylvestris. Tutt however did name brunnea in lineola [Essex Skipper], which was of a deep chocolate brown.
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Bright golden-brown ground colour with a narrow clear-cut marginal black line. The female with no trace of the discoidal lunule. Named as being an aberration similar to iberica Tutt, which was raised to sub-specific rank by Verity.
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Raised to subspecific rank by Verity and no longer named as an aberration.
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