About Periphanes delphinii (Linnaeus, 1758)
This species, known scientifically as Periphanes delphinii (Linnaeus, 1758), has a pair of stout, more crooked spines on its tibia, with the inner spine being very long. The mid and hind tibia have no spines. Its forewings have a more or less acute apex. For the technical description and variation: In the nominal form, Chariclea delphinii L. (501), the male’s forewing is purplish pink, paler along the outer margin and fringe, and darkest in the basal area and beyond the middle. The basal area is bordered by a pale and pink trilobed line. The orbicular stigma is ochreous and obscure. The reniform stigma is large and irregular, edged with brownish purple, and attached to the median shade; this median shade, together with the double postmedian line and the space beyond the line, forms an irregular darker band. The male’s hindwing is dirty ochreous, with fuscous veins and a fuscous border, and its extreme margin is pink. Females are darker, with a grey suffusion covering both wings. The paler form darollesi Oberth. is found in Algeria, Armenia, and western Turkestan. The larva is violet grey, with a black dorsal line edged with yellow, broadly yellow sublateral bands, a black thoracic plate, and a yellow anal plate. The entire body of the larva is covered with black tubercles. The wingspan of this species ranges from 30 to 36 millimetres, which is 1.2 to 1.4 inches.
