Dactyloplusia
impulsa Walker
Plusia impulsa Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects
Colln Br. Mus. 33: 838.
Plusia roseata Mell; Dufay, 1965, Bull. mens. Soc. Linn.
Lyon 34: 196, places as synonym of
impulsa but without reference to
description; the original description has not been located.
Dactyloplusia impulsa Walker;
Chou & Lu, 1979, Entomotaxonomia 1: 16.
Diagnosis. See generic description.
Geographical range. Sri Lanka, India, S. China, Sundaland, Sulawesi, New
Guinea.
Habitat preference. The only Bornean specimen was taken during the Mulu
survey on a river bank with disturbed vegetation and alluvial forest near a
limestone cliff at 100m near the Melinau Gorge.
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