In the humid tropics, a significant amount of the agricultural landscape where cocoa (Theobroma cacao) is grown is managed as agroforestry systems. As pressure to intensify cocoa production is increasing, the current worldwide trend for the intensification of cocoa production aims at significant reductions of the shade canopy. However, this trend implies losing the potential to produce valuable ecosystem services. Among those services, pollination is a limiting factor of cocoa production that has been investigated in the 70's and 80's essentially by trapping methods. The genus Forcypomia sp. is acknowledged to be the main insect responsible for cocoa pollination, when other insects such as ants and Trips sp. would play a secondary role. Regulation and habitat provision for cocoa pollinating insect communities are poorly documented in the literature. Most pollinating species are known from trapping methods in the immediate surroundings of the tiny cocoa flowers and no study has succeeded so far in observing and describing the insects actually visiting the inside of the cocoa flowers. In this investigation, we characterized habitats for pollinating insects at plot scale, in a 3ha cocoa-based agroforestry system located in the Peruvian Amazon. Local climate, topography, leaf litter's biomass, composition and water content, cocoa trees and associated plant diversity and structure, were described, as well as farmer's practices. Based on habitats characterization, we compared the pollinating insects' communities of two contrasted habitats within the same plot. We used a digital video recording system that allowed us to monitor and record all insects visiting cocoa from 6:30 am to 05:30 pm during the main flowering season. Each habitat was sampled in 2 or 3 different locations when possible and 20 to 30 flowers were monitored in each repetition, resulting in a total amount of 180 monitored flowers. Our results showed that the diversity and the frequency of insects visiting