Opisoplatia grandis Jordan

Opisoplatia grandis Jordan, 1907, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 31.

Diagnosis

This is a large, blackish brown species with somewhat ovate wings, though the hindwing tornus is distinctly produced. The female has more elongate forewings and a more angular hindwing tornus. The male has blue areas at the hindwing apex and along the dorsum, the latter more extensive, whereas the female has extensive blue at the apex only. The female is larger. In both sexes the area of the hindwing is roughly equivalent to that of the forewing. The male antennae are narrowly bipectinate, and the central area of the hindwing is slightly greyish. On the underside of both sexes there is turquoise in the spaces near the margin, though this is marginal in the male but submarginal in the female and barely evident on the hindwing.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The holotype female is from G. Kinabalu but without precise data, collected by J. Waterstradt. A male and female in BMNH were taken further south at 1400m in the Crocker Range, 16 miles south west of Keningau. Endo & Kishida (1999) illustrated both sexes but did not give precise data.

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