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• Phalangiidae, family Phalangiidae go
  a family of Phalangida
  
• Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver go
  spiders that spin orb webs
  
• Theridiidae, family Theridiidae go
  a family of comb-footed spiders
  
• Theraphosidae, family Theraphosidae go
  large tropical spiders
  
• Lycosidae, family Lycosidae go
  wolf spiders
  
• Ctenizidae, family Ctenizidae go
  large burrowing spiders
  
• Ixodidae, family Ixodidae go
  hard ticks
  
• Argasidae, family Argasidae go
  soft ticks
  
• Acaridae, family Acaridae go
  mites
  
• Trombidiidae, family Trombidiidae go
  mites
  
• Trombiculidae, family Trombiculidae go
  mites
  
• Sarcoptidae, family Sarcoptidae go
  small whitish mites
  
• Tetranychidae, family Tetranychidae go
  plant-feeding mites
  
• Scutigeridae, family Scutigeridae go
  a family of Chilopoda
  
• Geophilidae, family Geophilidae go
  small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth
  
• Limulidae, family Limulidae go
  horseshoe crabs
  
• Cancridae, family Cancridae go
  many of the best known edible crabs
  
• Portunidae, family Portunidae go
  swimming crabs
  
• Pinnotheridae, family Pinnotheridae go
  tiny soft-bodied crabs
  
• Lithodidae, family Lithodidae go
  deep-sea crabs of cold waters
  
• Majidae, family Majidae go
  spider crabs
  
• Homaridae, family Homaridae go
  large-clawed lobsters
  
• Nephropsidae, family Nephropsidae go
  in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
  
• Palinuridae, family Palinuridae go
  spiny lobsters
  
• Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura go
  crayfish
  
• Paguridae, family Paguridae go
  hermit crabs
  
• Crangonidae, family Crangonidae go
  shrimps
  
• Palaemonidae, family Palaemonidae go
  prawns
  
• Peneidae, family Peneidae go
  tropical prawns
  
• Mysidae, family Mysidae go
  small shrimp-like crustaceans
  
• Squillidae, family Squillidae go
  crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore
  
• Armadillidiidae, family Armadillidiidae go
  pill bugs
  
• Oniscidae, family Oniscidae go
  a family of Isopoda
  
• Porcellionidae, family Porcellionidae go
  sow bugs
  
• Orchestiidae, family Orchestiidae go
  beach fleas
  
• Triopidae, family Triopidae go
  a family of Notostraca
  
• Balanidae, family Balanidae go
  stalkless barnacles
  
• Lepadidae, family Lepadidae go
  goose barnacles
  
• Peripatidae, family Peripatidae go
  a family of Onychophora
  
• Peripatopsidae, family Peripatopsidae go
  a family of Onychophora
  
• Cicindelidae, family Cicindelidae go
  tiger beetles
  
• Coccinellidae, family Coccinellidae go
  the ladybugs
  
• Carabidae, family Carabidae go
  ground beetles
  
• Lampyridae, family Lampyridae go
  fireflies
  
• Cerambycidae, family Cerambycidae go
  long-horned beetles
  
• Chrysomelidae, family Chrysomelidae go
  leaf beetles
  
• Dermestidae, family Dermestidae go
  carpet beetles
  
• Cleridae, family Cleridae go
  beetles that prey on other insects
  
• Lamellicornia, superfamily Lamellicornia go
  scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles
  
• Scarabaeidae, family Scarabaeidae go
  scarab or dung beetles
  
• Melolonthidae, subfamily Melolonthidae go
  considered a separate family in some classification systems
  
• Cetoniidae, subfamily Cetoniidae go
  considered a separate family in some classification systems
  
• Lucanidae, family Lucanidae go
  stag beetles
  
• Elateridae, family Elateridae go
  click beetles and certain fireflies
  
• Dytiscidae, family Dytiscidae go
  water beetles
  
• Gyrinidae, family Gyrinidae go
  whirligig beetles
  
• Anobiidae, family Anobiidae go
  deathwatch beetles
  
• Curculionidae, family Curculionidae go
  true weevils: snout beetles
  
• Meloidae, family Meloidae go
  blister beetles
  
• Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae go
  large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles
  
• Staphylinidae, family Staphylinidae go
  rove beetles
  
• Tenebrionidae, family Tenebrionidae go
  a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
  
• Bruchidae, family Bruchidae go
  seed beetles
  
• Pediculidae, family Pediculidae go
  true lice: human lice and related forms
  
• Phthiriidae, family Phthiriidae go
  crab lice
  
• Pulicidae, family Pulicidae go
  many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals
  
• Cecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae go
  gall midges
  
• Muscoidea, superfamily Muscoidea go
  two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae
  
• Muscidae, family Muscidae go
  two-winged flies especially the housefly
  
• Glossinidae, family Glossinidae go
  flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies
  
• Calliphoridae, family Calliphoridae go
  blowflies
  
• Tachinidae, family Tachinidae go
  parasites on other insects
  
• Gasterophilidae, family Gasterophilidae go
  horse botflies
  
• Cuterebridae, family Cuterebridae go
  New World botflies
  
• Oestridae, family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, family Hypodermatidae go
  warble flies
  
• Tabanidae, family Tabanidae go
  horseflies
  
• Bombyliidae, family Bombyliidae go
  bee flies
  
• Asilidae, family Asilidae go
  robber flies
  
• Trypetidae, family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, family Trephritidae go
  fruit flies
  
• Drosophilidae, family Drosophilidae go
  fruit flies
  
• Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae go
  winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
  
• Culicidae, family Culicidae go
  mosquitoes
  
• Ceratopogonidae, family Ceratopogonidae go
  biting midges
  
• Chironomidae, family Chironomidae go
  midges
  
• Mycetophilidae, family Mycetophylidae go
  fungus gnats
  
• Psychodidae, family Psychodidae go
  very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies
  
• Sciaridae, family Sciaridae go
  fungus gnats
  
• Tipulidae, family Tipulidae go
  crane flies
  
• Simuliidae, family Simuliidae go
  blackflies and sand flies
  
• Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea go
  bees
  
• Apidae, family Apidae go
  honeybees
  
• Andrenidae, family Andrenidae go
  a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground
  
• Halictidae, family Halictidae go
  a family of small solitary bees
  
• Megachilidae, family Megachilidae go
  leaf-cutting and mason bees
  
• Vespidae, family Vespidae go
  an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets
  
• Sphecoidea, superfamily Sphecoidea go
  families Sphecidae and Stizidae
  
• Sphecidae, family Sphecidae go
  mud daubers
  
• Stizidae, family Stizidae go
  cicada killers
  
• Cynipidae, family Cynipidae go
  a family of Hymenoptera
  
• Chalcididae, family Chalcididae, Chalcidae, family Chalcidae go
  an arthropod family including: chalcidflies
  
• Ichneumonidae, family Ichneumonidae go
  ichneumon flies
  
• Tenthredinidae, family Tenthredinidae go
  sawflies
  
• Formicidae, family Formicidae go
  ants
  
• Dorylinae, subfamily Dorylinae go
  army ants
  
• Termitidae, family Termitidae go
  termites
  
• Rhinotermitidae, family Rhinotermitidae go
  large widely distributed family of termites of temperate to tropical regions
  
• Mastotermitidae, family Mastotermitidae go
  primitive termites
  
• Kalotermitidae, family Kalotermitidae go
  primitive termites of warm regions
  
• Acrididae, family Acrididae, Locustidae, family Locustidae go
  short-horned grasshoppers
  
• Tettigoniidae, family Tettigoniidae go
  long-horned grasshoppers
  
• Stenopelmatidae, family Stenopelmatidae go
  long-horned grasshoppers
  
• Gryllidae, family Gryllidae go
  crickets
  
• Phasmidae, family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, family Phasmatidae go
  stick insects
  
• Phyllidae, family Phyllidae, Phillidae, family Phillidae go
  leaf insects
  
• Blattidae, family Blattidae go
  domestic cockroaches
  
• Cryptocercidae, family Cryptocercidae go
  a family of Blattodea
  
• Mantidae, family Mantidae, Manteidae, family Manteidae go
  mantises
  
• Miridae, family Miridae, Capsidae, family Capsidae go
  leaf bugs
  
• Tingidae, family Tingidae go
  lace bugs
  
• Lygaeidae, family Lygaeidae go
  lygaeid bugs
  
• Coreidae, family Coreidae go
  squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs
  
• Cimicidae, family Cimicidae go
  wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects
  
• Notonectidae, family Notonectidae go
  aquatic carnivorous insects
  
• Belostomatidae, family Belostomatidae go
  water bugs
  
• Nepidae, family Nepidae go
  water scorpions
  
• Corixidae, family Corixidae go
  water bugs
  
• Gerrididae, family Gerrididae, Gerridae, family Gerridae go
  an arthropod family that includes water striders
  
• Reduviidae, family Reduviidae go
  assassin bugs
  
• Pyrrhocoridae, family Pyrrhocoridae go
  firebugs
  
• Aleyrodidae, family Aleyrodidae go
  whiteflies
  
• Coccoidea, superfamily Coccoidea go
  scale insects and mealybugs
  
• Coccidae, family Coccidae go
  scale insects
  
• Diaspididae, family Diaspididae go
  armored scales
  
• Dactylopiidae, family Dactylopiidae go
  cochineal insects
  
• Pseudococcidae, family Pseudococcidae go
  scalelike insects: mealybugs
  
• Aphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea go
  plant lice
  
• Aphididae, family Aphididae go
  small soft-bodied plant lice
  
• Adelgidae, family Adelgidae go
  plant lice
  
• Phylloxeridae, family Phylloxeridae go
  plant lice
  
• Psyllidae, family Psyllidae, Chermidae, family Chermidae go
  jumping plant lice
  
• Cicadidae, family Cicadidae go
  cicadas
  
• Cercopidae, family Cercopidae go
  froghoppers or spittlebugs
  
• Cicadellidae, family Cicadellidae go
  leafhoppers
  
• Jassidae, family Jassidae go
  family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications
  
• Membracidae, family Membracidae go
  plant hoppers: treehoppers
  
• Fulgoridae, family Fulgoridae go
  plant hoppers: lantern flies
  
• Psocidae, family Psocidae go
  a family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation
  
• Atropidae, family Atropidae go
  booklice
  
• Ephemeridae, family Ephemeridae go
  mayflies
  
• Myrmeleontidae, family Myrmeleontidae go
  antlions
  
• Chrysopidae, family Chrysopidae go
  green lacewings
  
• Hemerobiidae, family Hemerobiidae go
  brown lacewings
  
• Corydalidae, family Corydalidae go
  dobsons
  
• Sialidae, family Sialidae go
  an arthropod family including: alderflies
  
• Raphidiidae, family Raphidiidae go
  a family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies
  
• Mantispidae, family Mantispidae go
  mantispids
  
• Sisyridae, family Sisyridae go
  an arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies
  
• Lepismatidae, family Lepismatidae go
  firebrats
  
• Machilidae, family Machilidae go
  jumping bristletails
  
• Thripidae, family Thripidae go
  thrips
  
• Forficulidae, family Forficulidae go
  typical earwigs
  
• Nymphalidae, family Nymphalidae go
  large beautifully colored butterflies
  
• Satyridae, family Satyridae go
  a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods
  
• Danaidae, family Danaidae go
  small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies
  
• Pieridae, family Pieridae go
  arthropod family including cabbage butterflies
  
• Lycaenidae, family Lycaenidae go
  family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies
  
• Tortricidae, family Tortricidae go
  leaf rollers and codling moths
  
• Lymantriidae, family Lymantriidae go
  tussock moths
  
• Geometridae, family Geometridae go
  measuring worms
  
• Pyralidae, family Pyralidae, Pyralididae, family Pyralididae go
  bee moths
  
• Tineoidea, superfamily Tineoidea go
  clothes moths
  
• Tineidae, family Tineidae go
  clothes moths
  
• Gracilariidae, Gracillariidae, family Gracilariidae go
  leaf miners
  
• Gelechiidae, family Gelechiidae go
  important economic pests
  
• Noctuidae, family Noctuidae go
  cutworms
  
• Sphingidae, family Sphingidae go
  hawkmoths
  
• Bombycidae, family Bombycidae go
  Chinese silkworm moth
  
• Saturniidae, family Saturniidae go
  important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known
  
• Arctiidae, family Arctiidae go
  tiger moths
  
• Lasiocampidae, family Lasiocampidae go
  tent caterpillars