This was on my local moorland site today... initially I thought battered/ damaged... but I think the extra spots are scaled accordingly... anyone seen one like it. ??
hmmm.... not so sure now
Green Hairstreak ?ab
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I never have, Paul.
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Re: Green Hairstreak ?ab
Neither have I and could be a new ab. since I can't find this in any references I have. The closest is ab. bipunctanta (Tutt) - "Two white spots on the underside of the hindwings, one at the costa, the other towards the centre" ... although yours has the row of white spots too!
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Re: Green Hairstreak ?ab
Or a scale defect.Pete Eeles wrote:Neither have I and could be a new ab.
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Yeah. I suppose scale defect most likely... that's why I was having second thoughts.... interesting tho' ent it
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You didn't see the other side, did you?
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Re: Green Hairstreak ?ab
you KNOW I didn't, don't you...
.. and the reason I posted it was 'cos I thought the blown up pic seemed to show scales
.. and the reason I posted it was 'cos I thought the blown up pic seemed to show scales
Re: Green Hairstreak ?ab
As indeed it does...Paul wrote: I thought the blown up pic seemed to show scales
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so the next question is... does that matter , or are the scales defective... sorry genuine ignorance here of what scale defect constitutes. I may soon appear to be a pedant
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Soon??!
Scales can be 'defective' if, for some unknown reason, the processes by which the scales form and/or become pigmented are disrupted, disturbed, interrupted or corrupted. This could (for example) be due to physical damage to the larva or pupa, or a pathological condition from which the insect emerges alive, if not unscathed. Such defects can be symmetrical depending upon the nature of the cause.
Felix.
Well, jolly good question Felix, however these aberrations almost always involve a predictable reduction, expansion or otherwise mutation of existing markings, rather than new apparently random markings appearing like so much rubeola on the insects wings.
Felix.
Scales can be 'defective' if, for some unknown reason, the processes by which the scales form and/or become pigmented are disrupted, disturbed, interrupted or corrupted. This could (for example) be due to physical damage to the larva or pupa, or a pathological condition from which the insect emerges alive, if not unscathed. Such defects can be symmetrical depending upon the nature of the cause.
Felix.
Then why do you not refer to [southwater woods]environmentally induced aberrations[/southwater woods] as 'scale defects'? is it just your frantic semantics?felix wrote:Scales can be 'defective' if, for some unknown reason, the processes through which the scales form and/or become pigmented are disrupted, disturbed, interrupted or corrupted.
Well, jolly good question Felix, however these aberrations almost always involve a predictable reduction, expansion or otherwise mutation of existing markings, rather than new apparently random markings appearing like so much rubeola on the insects wings.
Felix.
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Yep, I see