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What is it please?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:15 am
by cheddar-caveman
Anybody give me a positive ID on this please?
Re: What is it please?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:34 am
by Pete Eeles
Looks like an aberrant Marbled White. ab. rubra seems close-ish!
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cur ... ecLimit=20
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: What is it please?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:29 pm
by JKT
I would have called this one M. lachesis, except that has not been found in GB.
Re: What is it please?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:26 pm
by Inachisio
Leucistic Melanargia galathea.
Re: What is it please?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:12 pm
by Piers
Hi Cheddar Caveman,
May I ask where the photo was taken - this is an aberration that is a speciality of an area not too far from Cheddar!
Although nationally very scarce indeed there are a couple of sites on Mendip where this form does crop up with regularity.
Send me a PM if you like..
All the best,
Felix.