While looking for aphids for the Miletus cat, a butt swiped down from the tree top and flew around me for a while. Initially I thought it was a Commander, but I changed the ID to a female Euthalia adonia once I had a closer look on the camera LCD.
Checking the shots against those in the BC checklist, C&P4 and Pisuth's book revealed some aberration in the spaces 6 and 7 in the forewing. On both upperside and underside, this butt has the white subapical spots and postdiscal spots in both spaces 6 and 6 joined together, with the ones in space 6 forming a continuous band.
Could this be a subspecies of Euthalia adonia or just an aberration?
An aberrant female Euthalia adonia (Green Baron)
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