Ramulus minutidentatus (Chen & He, 1994)

Hennemann, Frank H., Conle, Oskar V. & Zhang, Weiwei, 2008, 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), Zootaxa 1735, pp. 1-77 : 50

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).