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Peru does. Peru has about 4000 different species of butterflies. This is because Peru also contains 84 out of the 104 ecosystems in the world. This is because it has unique mountainous straight to lowland Amazon basin stretching from the Andes to the Brazilian and Bolivian borders.

The Neotropical region (Central and South America) have the greatest diversity of butterflies in the world. The Neotropical region is home to 7784 butterflies out of the 17657 butterflies known to man. No other region even comes close.

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