Editing Amazon basin (section)

=== Insects ===
{{See also|List of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes}}

More than 90% of the animal species in the Amazon are [[insect]]s,<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Insects|url=https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/insects.html|website=Mongabay.com}}</ref> of which about 40% are [[beetle]]s (Coleoptera constituting almost 25% of all known types of animal life-forms.)<ref name=insenc>[[#refPowell|Powell (2009)]]</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Species Diversity in Space and Time|author=Rosenzweig, Michael L. |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-49952-1|year=1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Hunt, T. |title=A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation |journal=Science |volume=318 |issue=5858 |pages=1913–1916 |year=2007 |pmid=18096805 |doi=10.1126/science.1146954 |bibcode = 2007Sci...318.1913H |last2=Bergsten |first2=J. |last3=Levkanicova |first3=Z. |last4=Papadopoulou |first4=A. |last5=John |first5=O. St. |last6=Wild |first6=R. |last7=Hammond |first7=P. M. |last8=Ahrens |first8=D. |last9=Balke |first9=M. |last10=Caterino |first10=M. S. |last11=Gomez-Zurita |first11=J. |last12=Ribera |first12=I. |last13=Barraclough |first13=T. G. |last14=Bocakova |first14=M. |last15=Bocak |first15=L. |last16=Vogler |first16=A. P. |s2cid=19392955 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>

Whereas all of Europe has some 321 [[butterfly]] species, the [[Manú National Park]] in Peru (4,000 hectare-survey) has 2,300 species, while [[Tambopata National Reserve]] (5,500 hectare-survey) has at least 1,231 species.