Post by nomad on Aug 1, 2017 16:48:31 GMT
I promised to show some Zygaena aberrations, quite a while ago, so lets start with a personal favourite, collected 173 years ago. The body is in need of repair.
This specimen is a unique Zygaena filipendulae aberration. Commander James John Walker in the The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Vol 43, (1907) described this specimen ' The whole of the usual crimson colour and dark-green scales of the forewing absent, the wings are a transparent horn colour with narrow blackish costal margin, the usual dark border of the hindwings and all the fringes are pale grey. All the crimson markings, and the body being normal, and the underside being modified as above. The label is presumably in the Doctors handwriting' . This Specimen was taken by Dr Robert Coane Roberts Jordan (1825-1890) on the cliffs near Teighmouth in Devon on 12 June 1844. J. C. & C.W. Dale coll, OUMNH .
This specimen is a unique Zygaena filipendulae aberration. Commander James John Walker in the The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Vol 43, (1907) described this specimen ' The whole of the usual crimson colour and dark-green scales of the forewing absent, the wings are a transparent horn colour with narrow blackish costal margin, the usual dark border of the hindwings and all the fringes are pale grey. All the crimson markings, and the body being normal, and the underside being modified as above. The label is presumably in the Doctors handwriting' . This Specimen was taken by Dr Robert Coane Roberts Jordan (1825-1890) on the cliffs near Teighmouth in Devon on 12 June 1844. J. C. & C.W. Dale coll, OUMNH .
