Like most other members of the genus Dares, the species is native to Borneo, more precisely in the northwest of the island.

The spines on the head and thorax correspond in their arrangement to that of Dares verrucosus, but are usually much longer than this.

[2][3] Dares ulula is widespread in the Malay state of Sarawak in the northwest of the island of Borneo.

The nymphs are usually very dark in color and show conspicuously bright, mostly yellow-orange patterns around the resulting spines that increase with age or their stage of development.

Josef Redtenbacher described two species in 1906, both of which in 1935 by Klaus Günther synonymed to Dares ulula.

The females to which the description referred were deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, but are considered destroyed.

Here Redtenbacher described a very young male nymph, which is deposited as holotype at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

Both Philip Edward Bragg and Patrick van der Stigchel and even Ian Abercrombie brought specimens from Mount Serapi that year.

Like the other species of the genus, it prefers a higher humidity, which can be achieved by a layer of soil covered with moist moss.

[3][4] The Phasmid Study Group listed Dares ulula under PSG number 117.