Probably useless bug-related vocabulary thing that help work for Bug Fables fanfics or something like that maybe
Formic - related to ants
Apian - related to bees
Vespine - related to wasps
Vespoid - Resembling a wasp
Termitic - related to termites
Pismire - antiquated and/or literary name for ant
White ants - Popular misnomer for termites.
Replete - caste in honeypot ants and in winter ants which stores food in their body, specifically their abdomen, which is transparent and composed of sclerites
seta (plural setae) - essentially the hair equivalent of insects and other invertebrates.
myrmeco - prefix for something ant-related
Myrmex - Ancient Greek for ant. Also the name of a mythological Greek woman that was turned into an ant as punishment.
Blackbeetle - though it refers to two species of Australian beetle, in informal contexts it can be used to refer to the “black cockroach” or “oriental cockroach” species instead.
Hymenoptera - Taxon of ants, wasps, bees and sawflies. They are notorious for having most eusocial insect species with the notable exception of termites.
Dictyoptera - Taxon of roaches, termites and mantises. Roaches and termites are on a different subgroup (Blattodea) than mantises, and termites are widely considered biologically roaches.













