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
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-03-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.180817
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180817
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Ramulus chongxinense
(Chen & He, 1991)
In Chongxin County
and
Huating County
(
Gansu Province
) the pest-like occurance of this species
affected over 20 kinds of trees in 1988. The most seriously defoliated species were predominantly
Quercus
liaotungensis &
Carpinus cordata
(Fagaceae)
. In 1988 the pests covered 2666.7 ha and destroyed an area of
2133.3 ha. The following events which occurred in a two year cycle have become increasingly serious. The
density was estimated at 1000 to 5000 insects per plant. Affected forests were totally defoliated and looked as
if they had been burned by a bush-fire (
Li, Bing et al., 2002
).