About Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821)
Scientific name: Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821). The description, sourced from Seitz, notes that among astrarche specimens from the Canary Islands, the red spotted band on the wing upperside is occasionally unusually broad and of uniform width. It forms a regular band, only cut across by the black veins; this variant is ab. cramera Eschsch. (= canariensis Black.) (80 a). The author also caught very extreme specimens of this form on the slopes of the Aures Mountains in Algeria, though only a small number of individuals. Conversely, the author encountered astrarche specimens in the Canaries that definitely did not belong to cramera, and instead belonged to calida.
