Mimas tiliae aberration

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From the same buying trip, 3 examples of the Lime Hawk moth Mimas tiliae, these are from 1909, the bottom one is especially extreme, could do with resetting but as they are so old I won't bother, I think they retain a certain something when seen on the old pins, I love to rescue old specimens from a certain dermestid attack.

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For those of you who are not familiar with this species here is a picture of the normal form.

[nomad]

According to my book, Your top two tiliae would be ab. centripunctata. Not sure about the bottom, one, a most unusual specimen. It would have taken, I believe a large amount of breeding to obtain these rare abs.

[Paul K]

Feb 4, 2017 11:24:40 GMT @dp1965 said:

For those of you who are not familiar with this species here is a picture of the normal form.

That was my first Sphinx moth I have collected in Poland back in 1983 !
I love that species !

Paul

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I found this image but none seem to be like the bottom specimen

[Paul K]

Those three I have collected in Poland in early '80.
They are nor abs as yours but the bottom one was the first one I found!
Paul

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Those are lovely Paul. This is a 1919 specimen of the normal form, from Hampshire.

[nomad]

There is some unusual abs of this species in the Bristol collections, I am there Monday, so will take a look at them 

[nomad]

There was some nice tillae today. Shown here are a typical pair and three aberrations.

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Can't see the picture unfortunately.

[nomad]

Usual Sunday photobucket, I have changed all today's images to imgur. Sundays and often Mondays is missing images day courtesy of bucket .

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What a variable moth, I've never seem one like the bottom one of my 3.

[nomad]

Another ab.