Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Plusiinae
Macdunnoughia Kostrowicki, 1961
Plusia confusa Stephens, 1850
= Scleroplusia Ichinose, 1962: 249 (TS: Plusia confusa Stephens, 1850: 291). Scleroplusia Ichinose was originally proposed as a subgenus of Autographa Hübner, [1821]. However, it is a junior objective synonym of Macdunnottghia Kostrowicki, 1961.
= Paraplusia Mukerji & Krishnamorthy, 1955: 295 (TS: Plusia confusa Stephens, 1850: 291). Paraplusia is not nomenclaturally available as it does not satisfy the provisions of the Code, Article 13 (a), having been published after 1930 without a statement of characters differentiating the taxon.
Puriplusia Chou & Lu, 1974
Plusia purissima Butler, 1878
Macdunnoughia (Puriplusia ) tetragona Walker, [1858] 1857 (Plusia)
Hindostan [India]
= Plusia semivitta Moore, 1867: 63, pl. 6, f. 13 (TL: Darjeeling)
= Puriplusia zayuensis Chou & Lu, 1982: 98 (TL: Zayu, Zizang (China))
Distribution
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya
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