Statistics for Insect Orders

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# of Species	Common name	Etymology	Order	% Correct
116,861	Wasps, bees, and ants	Membrane-winged	Hymenoptera	94%
386,500	Beetles	Sheath-winged	Coleoptera	93%
155,477	Flies	Two-winged	Diptera	93%
157,338	Butterflies and moths	Scale-winged	Lepidoptera	93%
103,590	True bugs (including cicadas, aphids, hoppers, shield bugs, and more)	Half-winged	Hemiptera	90%
23,855	Grasshoppers and crickets	Straight-winged	Orthoptera	83%
5,899	Dragonflies and damselflies	Toothed	Odonata	79%
7,314	Roaches and termites	Cockroach	Blattodea	70%
1,978	Earwigs	Skin-winged	Dermaptera	68%
2,400	Mantises	Prophet-looking	Mantodea	65%
5,868	Lacewings, antlions, and mantidflies	Nerve-winged	Neuroptera	65%
3,240	Mayflies	Short-lived, winged	Ephemeroptera	57%
3,014	Stick insects and leaf insects	Phantom-looking	Phasmatodea	55%
14,391	Caddisflies	Hair-winged	Trichoptera	53%
5,864	Thrips	Fringe-winged	Thysanoptera	50%
560	Silverfish and firebrats	Bridge insects	Zygentoma	46%
3,743	Stoneflies	Folded-winged	Plecoptera	44%
2,075	Fleas (ectoparasites)	Having a sucker/straw, wingless	Siphonaptera	44%
757	Scorpionflies	Long-winged	Mecoptera	43%
354	Alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies	Large-winged	Megaloptera	38%
513	Jumping bristletails	Ancient-jawed	Archaeognatha	32%
5,720	Booklice and barklice (nonparasitic)	Grinders with wings	Psocoptera	30%
37	Angel insects	Purely wingless	Zoraptera	26%
463	Web-spinners	Lively-winged	Embioptera	25%
5,102	Biting and sucking lice (ectoparasites)	Lice with no wings	Phthiraptera	24%
609	Twisted-wing insects (endoparasites)	Twisted-winged	Strepsiptera	24%
254	Snakeflies	Having a needle, winged	Raphidioptera	23%
54	Rock crawlers and ice crawlers	Back-winged	Notoptera	21%