Ophthalmitis rufilauta Prout

Ophthalmodes rufilauta Prout, 1925, Novit. zool., 32: 61.

Ophthalmodes rufilauta Prout; Holloway, 1976: 84.

Diagnosis

This species is best distinguished by the brown shading between the hindwing antemedial and the discal mark. There is brown suffusion elsewhere particularly in association with the fasciae; the fasciae are rather weakly defined on the forewing. In the male genitalia the valves have three spur-like processes: central, basal; distal, saccular; subcostal, central.

Geographical Range

Borneo.

Habitat Preference

The majority of specimens taken in recent surveys were from lowland rainforest, the highest being a male from 1000m in the lower montane forest zone of G. Mulu and a female from 1200m on G. Kinabalu.

Taxonomic Note

Sato (2005b) described material similar to Ophthalmitis rufilauta from Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand as O. ogatai Sato. This species, then undescribed, was mentioned in connection with rufilauta in Part 11.

Genitalia: