Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus

ab. subalbida Verity 1904

The ground colour is of a yellowish-white, with the darker borders normal. 

ab. antilacticolor Leeds 1948-49

Forewings not white but symmetrically creamy or pale straw.

Hindwings are normal.

ab. albinotica Goodson 1960

This is an albino with all the black or brown patterning replaced by silver-grey, including the eye spot.

ab. pallidemarginata Oberthur 1909

The ground colour is normal with the margins pale instead of brownish, but the apical eye remaining black with a white pupil.

This form is not an albino, unlike ab. albinotica which also has the eye spot without the black pigment.

ab. pallidemarginata Oberthur 1909

The ground colour is normal with the margins pale instead of brownish, but the apical eye remaining black with a white pupil.

This form is not an albino, unlike ab. albinotica which also has the eye spot without the black pigment.

ab. obscurior Schultz 1928

Males with the base of the upperside forewings suffused with dark brown as far as the transverse median black shade (band).

The fulvous of the hindwings is strongly reduced.

ab. lugens Oberthur 1909

The black borders are much widened, reaching to beyond the apical eye spot.

The hindwings are almost completely black-brown.

ab. lugens Oberthur 1909

The black borders are much widened, reaching to beyond the apical eye spot.

The hindwings are almost completely black-brown.

ab. lugens Oberthur 1909

The black borders are much widened, reaching to beyond the apical eye spot.

The hindwings are almost completely black-brown.

ab. semi-nigra Rocci 1912

The forewings are normal.

The hindwings are so darkened that only a small patch of orange ground colour remains.

ab. venata Lempke 1957

Upperside forewings with the nervures between the androconial  band and the outer margin of the same dark colour as the margins.

ab. anticrassipuncta Leeds 1948-49

The forewing apical spot is large, often tailing downwards.

ab. antiparvipuncta Leeds 1948-49

The apical spot on the forewing is very small.

ab. antiparvipuncta Leeds 1948-49

The apical spot on the forewing is very small.

ab. caeca Tutt 1896

The forewing apical spots are exceedingly small and practically blind.

ab. postice-inocellata Lempke 1934

Upperside of the hindwings with the spot at the anal angle absent.

ab. bimaculata Gussich 1917

Upperside hindwings with two ocelli instead of the normal one, both are pupilled with white to a noticeable degree.

ab. postexcessa Leeds 1948-49

Upperside hindwings with one or more additional spots which can be equal or unequal on the different wings, forewings remain normal.

ab. excessa Tutt 1896

Uppersid eofrewings with one, two, three or even four extra spots, usually small and blind, but sometimes large and ocellated.

ab. excessa Tutt 1896

Upperside forewings with one, two, three or even four extra spots, usually small and blind, but sometimes large and ocellated.

ab. excessa Tutt 1896

Upperside  forewings with one, two, three or even four extra spots, usually small and blind, but sometimes large and ocellated.

ab. tithonellus Strand 1912

There are two extra black spots on each forewing without white centres.

ab. tithonellus Strand 1912

There are two extra black spots on each forewing without white centres.

ab. tithonellus Strand 1912

There are two extra black spots on each forewing without white centres.

ab. tithonellus Strand 1912

There are two extra black spots on each forewing without white centres.

ab. multiocellata Oberthur 1909

Upperside and underside of the forewings with two extra white pupilled spots below the double-pupilled apical eye spot.

These are large with prominent black surrounds to the white pupils.

ab. crassiexcessa Leeds 1948-49

Upper and underside of the forewings with two, or rarely three, large additional spots, sometimes very large.

The spots may not be of equal size and sometimes are devoid of their white pupil.

ab. postlanceolata Leeds 1948-49

Underside of the hindwings with some of the postmedian spots fairly well elongated, sometimes with further white dribbling continuing outwards.

ab. postobsoleta Leeds 1948-49

Leeds says that the underside hindwings show only one, two or three white spots instead of the typical four, five or six.

This form then must comply to only 1 or 3 points.

trans ab. infra-unicolora Lempke 1934

The underside of the hindwings is of a unicolorous dark brown, without the normal light area.