Control button: brown vs green?

[RPKUPK]

Of course I'm doing the exasperated wack-a-mole anti-partisan duty of the Axis territories.
I noticed certain areas whole armies forming out of nowhere an Axis control territories way behind the front, all over.
I press the control button and I see the territories controlled by the Russians off to the east.
But then instead of normal appearing terrain and hexes in Axis control, I see green-colored hexes. What do these areas mean?! How are they different from where partisans appear? Are they spawning areas? Just what are they? How is one to know???

[Franciscus]

Green is italian.
Areas captured by your italian units

Regards

[RPKUPK]

Thanks Franciscus, you are smart and coo! Now this is what I mean about the War Plan manual being insufficiently explanatory.
I thought those were spawning areas for partisans!