Figures 12 – 17. Cnipsomorpha Erinacea N. Gen. N In Descriptions Of A New Genus And Three New Species Of Phasmatodea From Southwest China (Insecta: Phasmatodea)
Author
Hennemann, Frank H.
Author
Conle, Oskar V.
Author
Zhang, Weiwei
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Zootaxa
2008
2008-03-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.180817
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10.5281/zenodo.180817
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Ramulus minutidentatus
(Chen & He, 1994)
In the Yongji County (Jinlin Province) this species badly defoliated several districts of forest in 1991. Alll
younger trees were killed and bigger trees became dry and withered (
Xu, Zhang et al., 1994
).
Between 1998 and 2001 similarely serious damage by the same species occured in Tonghua city (Jiling
Province), where 2000–5000 insects were encountered in a single
Tilia mandshurica
(Tiliaceae)
. Random
analysis of fallen leaf-litter on the ground beneath the affected tree, has shown the density of dropped eggs to
be 1000–3000 per m
2
(
Wang & Zhou, 2003
).