ISBN/ISSN: 7503811080
Published on: 1993-01
Hardcover
Located in warm-temperate zone, Shandong Province is abundant in its forest resources as well as insect species, many of which are beneficial or injurious insects influencing the growth of forests. Since 1950s , a systematic observation and study in the biology and prevention methods of many forest insects has been conducted by a lot of researchers engaged in entomology and forest-protection from agroforestry schools, research institutes and production units. Ministry and the leadership of Forestry Department of Shandong Province, a census of the provincial forest insects were carried on, through which the species, distribution, injury and the resources of natural enemy were further investigated.
The book is a local illustration of forest insects. It's also an informative reference book.The main purpose is to distinguish insect species.1543 species of insects belonging to 192families, 16 orders under Insecta and Arachnoidea have been presented, including all the injurious forest insects, natural enemy insects, resource insects and some mites related to forest. The morphology, hosts, distribution of each species and the biology of some species of great economic importance are described. The morphological Characterishing different species, 32 colour pictures of adults and 422 characteristic pictures are attached. This is a reference book for researchers majoring in forest-protection, plant protection and forestry as well as those teachers and students in agro-forestry universities and department of Biology.
In this book, orders and families are arranged in order according to the insect classificatory system .the genus and species appear in Latin alphabetical order. To help the readers, indexes of Latin names and Chinese names in Chinese phonetic alphabetical order are attached.
