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Wall Lassiommata megaera - caledonica
typical recto
ab. caledonica verity 1911
Usually confined to Scottish populations.
The markings are generally darker and wider than specimens from further south.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - pallida
typical recto
ab. pallida Gillmer 1908
The ground colour of these specimens is paler and more yellowish.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - pallida
typical recto
ab. pallida Gillmer 1908
The ground colour of these specimens is paler and more yellowish.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - xanthos
typical recto
ab. xanthos Frohawk 1938
The ground colour is a very pale straw, almost white.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - melania
typical recto
ab. melania Oberthur 1896
Upperside with the fulvous ground colour suffused with fuscous, especially at the base and on the margin of the forewing.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - castaneopicta
typical recto
ab. castaneopicta Verity 1923
The upperside black pattern is mixed with chestnut.
This causes some females to look quite pale.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - latimargo
typical recto
ab. latimargo Stammeshaus 1954
The dark outer border on the upperside of the forewings is strongly widened so that it nearly reaches the apical eye spot.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - postanullata
typical recto
ab. postanullata Lempke 1957
Upperside hindwings with the yellow band along the outer border reduced to narrow rings around the eye spots.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - reducta
typical recto
ab. reducta Hofer 1920
Upperside of the forewings with the transverse stripe that runs from the costa to the tornus widened as it nears the tornus, and containing three spots of normal ground colour.
The hindwings are a dark fuscous with a narrow fulvous median band which is all that remains of the normal fulvous area, most of the marginal ocelli are obscured with fuscous.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - reducta
typical recto
ab. reducta Hofer 1920
Upperside of the forewings with the transverse stripe that runs from the costa to the tornus widened as it nears the tornus, and containing three spots of normal ground colour.
The hindwings are a dark fuscous with a narrow fulvous median band which is all that remains of the normal fulvous area, most of the marginal ocelli are obscured with fuscous.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - trans ab. medeolugens
typical recto
trans ab. medeolugens Fuchs 1892
This is a transitional form approaching ab. medeolugens.
Upperside of the forewings with the median area filled in between the transverse lines with brownish or blackish scales, and forming a dark band from the costa to the inner margin.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - alberti
typical recto
ab. alberti Albert 1896
Upperside of the forewings without the small ocellus that is sometimes present on the outer side of the main apical eyespot.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - bipupillata
typical recto
ab. bipupillata Mosley 1896
The main apical spot of the upperside forewings has two white pupils instead of the usual one.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - bipupillata
typical recto
ab. bipupillata Mosley 1896
The main apical spot of the upperside forewings has two white pupils instead of the usual one.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - quadriocellata
typical recto
ab. quadriocellata Oberthur 1909
Upperside forewings with two white pupils in the main apical spot and with an extra ocellus above it near the apex, and another below it in cell 3.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - quadriocellata
typical recto
ab. quadriocellata Oberthur 1909
Upperside forewings with two white pupils in the main apical spot and with an extra ocellus above it near the apex, and another below it in cell 3.
Wall Lassiommata megaera - operta
typical recto
ab. operta Schultz 1904
There is NO white pupil in the apical eye spot on the upperside of the forewings.
The hindwings have no white pupils in the marginal ocelli.
ab. parviocellata: The apical eye spot on the upperside of the forewings is noticeably reduced in size.
ab. reducta: Upperside of the forewings with the transverse stripe that runs from the costa to the tornus widened as it nears the tornus, and containing three spots of normal ground colour.
The hindwings are a dark fuscous with a narrow fulvous median band which is all that remains of the normal fulvous area, most of the marginal ocelli are obscured with fuscous.
