This aerial photo taken on Feb. 1, 2023 shows the view of a mangrove wetland in Futian National Nature Reserve in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)A catalog of insects from south China's Guangdong Province has been published, providing deeper insights into the province's rich biodiversity, which includes numerous endemic species, according to local authorities.The catalog, a finding of Guangdong's first-ever systematic investigation into the insect species in the province by the end of 2021, includes 12,093 insect species in 3,198 genera, according to the provincial forestry administration.This is the most comprehensive catalog of insect species in Guangdong, a biodiversity hotspot located in the south of the Nanling Mountains and east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the administration said.Insects inhabit different trophic levels in the food web and play an important role in maintaining the diversity and stability of the ecosystem. The catalog of insect sp
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