Top 10 Most Common Insects in Puerto Maldonado
Insects, with their distinguishable features and diverse habitats, play a significant role in Puerto Maldonado's ecosystem. Geographic variations in Puerto Maldonado contribute to the unique diversity in insect populations. These creatures, no matter how small, serve a multitude of roles - from pesky critters to beneficial pollinators. In this feature, Top 10 most common insects in Puerto Maldonado, we emphasize how the region's environments shape these intriguing creatures' existence.
Most Common Insects
1. Bullet ant
Worker ants are 1.8 - 3 cm long and resemble stout, reddish-black, wingless wasps. 
2. Pink-toe tarantula
The Pink-toe tarantula gets its common name from the pinkish tips that decorate the ends of its eight hairy legs. Some tarantula enthusiasts keep the pink-toe tarantula as a pet since it tends to have a fairly mild temperament and a striking appearance.
3. Green-banded urania
The species is slightly larger, and has more white to the "tail". The wingspan of Urania leilus is about 7 cm.
4. Periander metalmark
Rhetus periander, the Periander metalmark or variable beautymark, is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae. It is found in most of Central America and South America, ranging from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina.
5. Amazon thorn spider
6. Giant sicklewing
7. Cramer's eighty-eight
The wingspan is about 3 - 4 cm. Adults are black with a blue band on each wing. The underside is red and white with black stripes that look like an outlined number "89" or "98".
8. Abracris flavolineata
Abracris flavolineata is a right-winged insect from the family locusts (Acrididae). The scientific name of this species was first validly published in 1773 by De Geer.
9. Meneria metalmark
Amarynthis meneria was described by Cramer in 1776.
10. Common dusted spurwing
