Class Insecta and Arachnida Orders

Can you name all of the orders in the classes Insecta and Arachnida? [two in Arachnida are technically superorders] (please let me know if there are any typos!)

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Hint	Answer
Beetles	Coleoptera
Butterflies and moths	Lepidoptera
Ants, wasps, bees, sawflies	Hymenoptera
Flies, gnats, mosquitos	Diptera
Crickets, grasshoppers, katydids	Orthoptera
Dragonflies and damselflies	Odonata
Thrips	Thysanoptera
True bugs (cicadas, aphids, leaf/treehoppers, stinkbugs, etc.)	Hemiptera
Fleas	Siphonaptera
Roaches and termites	Blattodea
Stick insects and leaf insects	Phasmatodea
Praying mantids	Mantodea
Net-winged insects (lacewings, antlions, mantidflies, owlflies)	Neuroptera
Dobsonflies, fishflies, alderflies	Megaloptera
Scorpionflies	Mecoptera
Earwigs	Dermaptera
Stoneflies	Plecoptera
Caddisflies	Trichoptera
Snakeflies	Raphidioptera
Twisted-wing parasites	Strepsiptera
Jumping bristletails	Archaeognatha
Mayflies	Ephemeroptera
Angel insects	Zoraptera
Silverfish and firebrats	Zygentoma
Webspinners/footspinners	Embioptera
Book lice, bark lice, parasitic lice	Psocodea
Ice bugs/ice crawlers/rock crawlers	Grylloblattodea
Heelwalkers/gladiator insects	Mantophasmatodea
Spiders	Araneae
Scorpions	Scorpiones
Harvestmen/harvesters/daddy long legs	Opiliones
Tailless whip scorpions/whip spiders	Amblypygi
Whip scorpions/vinegaroons	Uropygi
Short-tailed whip scorpions/sprickets	Schizomida
Camel spiders/sun spiders/wind scorpions	Solifugae
Ticks	Ixodida
Mites (starts with an A)	Acariformes
Mites (start with a P)	Parasitiformes
Microwhip scorpions	Palpigradi
Pseudoscorpions/false scorpions/book scorpions	Pseudoscorpiones
Hooded tickspiders	Ricinulei