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Insect Orders

Okay, fellow arthropod lovers (and Greek enthusiasts), this one's for you! More than half of all known animal species are insects. How many orders of class Insecta can you name, given common names and etymologies?
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Last updated: July 13, 2020
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# of Species
Common name
Etymology
Order
386,500
Beetles
Sheath-winged
Coleoptera
157,338
Butterflies and moths
Scale-winged
Lepidoptera
155,477
Flies
Two-winged
Diptera
116,861
Wasps, bees, and ants
Membrane-winged
Hymenoptera
103,590
True bugs (including cicadas, aphids, hoppers, shield bugs, and more)
Half-winged
Hemiptera
23,855
Grasshoppers and crickets
Straight-winged
Orthoptera
14,391
Caddisflies
Hair-winged
Trichoptera
7,314
Roaches and termites
Cockroach
Blattodea
5,899
Dragonflies and damselflies
Toothed
Odonata
5,868
Lacewings, antlions, and mantidflies
Nerve-winged
Neuroptera
5,864
Thrips
Fringe-winged
Thysanoptera
5,720
Booklice and barklice (nonparasitic)
Grinders with wings
Psocoptera
5,102
Biting and sucking lice (ectoparasites)
Lice with no wings
Phthiraptera
3,743
Stoneflies
Folded-winged
Plecoptera
3,240
Mayflies
Short-lived, winged
Ephemeroptera
3,014
Stick insects and leaf insects
Phantom-looking
Phasmatodea
2,400
Mantises
Prophet-looking
Mantodea
2,075
Fleas (ectoparasites)
Having a sucker/straw, wingless
Siphonaptera
1,978
Earwigs
Skin-winged
Dermaptera
757
Scorpionflies
Long-winged
Mecoptera
609
Twisted-wing insects (endoparasites)
Twisted-winged
Strepsiptera
560
Silverfish and firebrats
Bridge insects
Zygentoma
513
Jumping bristletails
Ancient-jawed
Archaeognatha
463
Web-spinners
Lively-winged
Embioptera
354
Alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies
Large-winged
Megaloptera
254
Snakeflies
Having a needle, winged
Raphidioptera
54
Rock crawlers and ice crawlers
Back-winged
Notoptera
37
Angel insects
Purely wingless
Zoraptera
Bletsch
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Level 67
Jan 19, 2022
Must study up on this one!
Lukose
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Level 67
Feb 13, 2023
Could use an update; Psocoptera and Pthiraptera are now combined into Psocodea.
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