Felix's help required

[grumpy]

Felix, Paul Whetton and I have both taken photographs of a Common Blue Female abberation. We took them at different sites and a year or so apart, mine at Upton Fen Norfolk, and Paul's at Aston Rowant.

Could you help with putting a name to the abberation if it has one please?

many thanks on behalf of

Paul Whetton & grumpy (Dave Clay)

[Piers]

Hi Paul and Dave,

For the Aston Rowant specimen I would offer ab. fusca-supracaeruleolunulata, on account of the wings being blue to the costa margin but without the orange lunules; although the area is ringed with blue scaling as if the lunules were present.

The Norfolk specimen looks like ab. fusca-caeruleolunulata; as above but predominantly brown in colour rather than blue.

Hope this helps, and sincere apologies for the delay in responding to you.

Felix.

[Paul Wetton]

Hi Felix

No worries about the delay and many thanks for offering up some names for these abs. Much appreciated.

Paul

[grumpy]

Hi Felix, thankyou for your help with the identifications, as Paul says no worries about the delay, just chuffed to dot the i and cross the t !.

Many thanks

Dave Clay (grumpy), or so the wife says!