| # of Species | Common name | Etymology | Order | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 386,500 | Beetles | Sheath-winged | Coleoptera | 94%
|
| 116,861 | Wasps, bees, and ants | Membrane-winged | Hymenoptera | 94%
|
| 157,338 | Butterflies and moths | Scale-winged | Lepidoptera | 94%
|
| 155,477 | Flies | Two-winged | Diptera | 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 | 84%
|
| 5,899 | Dragonflies and damselflies | Toothed | Odonata | 81%
|
| 7,314 | Roaches and termites | Cockroach | Blattodea | 73%
|
| 2,400 | Mantises | Prophet-looking | Mantodea | 69%
|
| 5,868 | Lacewings, antlions, and mantidflies | Nerve-winged | Neuroptera | 69%
|
| 1,978 | Earwigs | Skin-winged | Dermaptera | 67%
|
| 3,240 | Mayflies | Short-lived, winged | Ephemeroptera | 59%
|
| 3,014 | Stick insects and leaf insects | Phantom-looking | Phasmatodea | 58%
|
| 14,391 | Caddisflies | Hair-winged | Trichoptera | 54%
|
| 5,864 | Thrips | Fringe-winged | Thysanoptera | 50%
|
| 560 | Silverfish and firebrats | Bridge insects | Zygentoma | 48%
|
| 2,075 | Fleas (ectoparasites) | Having a sucker/straw, wingless | Siphonaptera | 47%
|
| 3,743 | Stoneflies | Folded-winged | Plecoptera | 46%
|
| 757 | Scorpionflies | Long-winged | Mecoptera | 45%
|
| 354 | Alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies | Large-winged | Megaloptera | 40%
|
| 513 | Jumping bristletails | Ancient-jawed | Archaeognatha | 36%
|
| 5,720 | Booklice and barklice (nonparasitic) | Grinders with wings | Psocoptera | 29%
|
| 37 | Angel insects | Purely wingless | Zoraptera | 27%
|
| 463 | Web-spinners | Lively-winged | Embioptera | 26%
|
| 609 | Twisted-wing insects (endoparasites) | Twisted-winged | Strepsiptera | 26%
|
| 54 | Rock crawlers and ice crawlers | Back-winged | Notoptera | 25%
|
| 254 | Snakeflies | Having a needle, winged | Raphidioptera | 25%
|
| 5,102 | Biting and sucking lice (ectoparasites) | Lice with no wings | Phthiraptera | 24%
|