SUBFAMILY PLUSIINAE
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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.


Dactyloplusia impulsa


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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