Bug Species in Real Life

[Cheryll]

*Hi again! I made this at 11pm since I'm procrastinating. Honestly this taught me more than a semester in biology. Anyway, this has the real life species of the Animal Crossing species. I tried to keep more in Japan as most bugs there are from Japan. Obviously this isn't pErFeCt so please correct me :]*
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Also, the scorpion...please kill me...that took forever so I called it "red scorpion" -_-
Common Butterfly - Cabbage White
Yellow Butterfly - Southern Dogface
Tiger Butterfly - Swallowtail Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly - Monarch Butterfly
Emperor Butterfly - Blue Morpho
Agrias Butterfly - Agrias Butterfly
Raja Brooke Butterfly - Rajah Brooke's Birdwing
Birdwing Butterfly - Queen Alexandra's Birdwing
Moth - Common Moth
Oak Silk Moth - Japanese Silk Moth
Honeybee - Japanese Honeybee
Bee - Osuzumebachi (Japanese Hornet) [nah...]
Long Locust - Oriental Longheaded Grasshopper
Migratory Locust - Migratory Locust
Rice Grasshopper - Inago (Rice Grasshopper) [cute but destructive...owo]
Mantis - Praying Mantis
Orchid Mantis - Orchid Mantis [well, google was like here's Hymenopus coronatus]
Brown Cicada - Large Brown Cicada [good sound]
Robust Cicada - Min-min Cicada [zemi - cicada, I know my Japanese also...Good anime cicada sound]
Walker Cicada - Walker Cicada [wonderful sound]
Giant Cicada - Bear Cicada [meh]
Evening Cicada - Higurashi (Evening Cicada) [WONDERFUL SOUND]
Cicada Shell - possible Nii-Nii Zemi (Kaempher Cicada)
Lantern Fly - Alligator Bug
Red Dragonfly - Red Dragonfly
Darner Dragonfly - Lamenting Silver
Banded Dragonfly - Banded Dragonfly [pain in City Folk]
Petaltail Dragonfly - Petaltail Dragonfly [Google's like...here's Petaluridae...good luck.]
Ant - Black Garden Ant
Pondskater - Water Striders [skrEEEt]
Diving Beetle - Great Diving Beetle [r/entitledbeetles]
Stinkbug - Green Stinkbug
Snail - Land Snail
Cricket - Camel Cricket [good noise]
Bell Cricket - Bell-ring Cricket [LOVE THAT NOISE REE]
Grasshopper - Garden Grasshopper
Mole Cricket - Mole Cricket
Walking Leaf - Walking Leaf
Walking Stick - Walking Stick
Bagworm - Bagworm [eww]
Ladybug - Spotted Ladybug [so cute...well as an adult...don't look up larvae]
Violin Beetle - Violin Beetle
Longhorn Beetle - Asian Long-Horned Beetle
Tiger Beetle - Tiger Beetle
Dung Beetle - Dung Beetle [thought : snowmen are just bodies with dung beetle larvae in them]
Wharf Roach - Wharf Roach [EXTERMINATE these]
Hermit Crab - Hermit Crab
Firefly - Firefly
Fruit Beetle - Figeater Beetle
Scarab Beetle - Jewel Scarab [r/entitledbeetles]
Jewel Beetle - Jewel Beetle
Miyama Stag - Miyama Stag-su [Don't actually say stag-su]
Saw Stag - Saw Stag
Giant Stag - Giant Stag Beetle
Rainbow Stag - Rainbow Stag [of course, tropical area gets it...]
Cyclommatus Stag - Cyclommatus Stag
Golden Stag - Golden Devil Stag [google's like...here's a beetle that's not a stag. >:[
Horned Dynastid - Horned Dynastid
Horned Atlas - Horned Atlas
Horned Elephant - Horned Elephant
Horned Hercules - Horned Hercules
Goliath Beetle - Goliath Beetle
Flea - Flea [Begone thicc legs thots]
Pill Bug - Roly Poly
Mosquito - Common Mosquito
Fly - Fruit Fly
House Centipede - House Centipede [nah, not today]
Centipede - Mukade (Giant Centipede) [Once again, begone thicc legs thots]
Spider - Wasp Spider
Tarantula - Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula
Scorpion - Red Scorpion

Past Games :]
*ladybugs are the same for all the games, even the black with red spots*
Purple Butterfly - Great Purple Emperor [r/entitledbutterflies]
Common Dragonfly - White-Tailed Skimmer
Pine Cricket - Pine Cricket
Cockroach - American Cockroach [if I see these, welp...set the house on fire]
Drone Beetle - Drone Beetle
Stag Beetle - Hirata Stag Beetle
Mountain Stag Beetle - Mountain Stag Beetle
Crab - Japanese Shore Crab
Coconut Crab - Coconut Crab [they're HUGE]

Special Thanks to
EmGee
MapleCake

 

[Dewy]

Neat! Thanks for making this, I love this kind of thing.

 

[Sweetley]

Thanks for yet another informative list! The evening cicada really has a lovely name IRL.

 

[2kimi2furious]

The first time I realized how big some of the horned beetles were irl, I screamed. TOO BIG.

 

[dizzy bone]

Haha I really love your side comments. It's crazy how much AC has helped me identify actual bugs (and fish) in real life. I live in a humid country so at the time when I lived with my room mate we started noticing our house was just littered with these tiny white cocoons in certain parts (like behind our bathroom door grossss) and we had no idea when they were. Then suddenly it clicked, because I had seen something similar in the game... it was the freakin bagworm!

 

[AlyssaAC]

The first time I realized how big some of the horned beetles were irl, I screamed. TOO BIG.

Lol! I totally agree! I remember looking up those beetles too and I literally freaked out when I saw the pictures. I really don't like bugs after seeing that. XD

Also, thanks for the list! The real names are very interesting.

 

[Cheryll]

Thanks everyone!
2kimi2furious : Yep, welcome to Japan and tropical areas. :]
dizzy bone : Thanks, I just added that since the last lists seemed...boring. owo Bagworms...I've never seen one but they seem like a pest. These beetles are too entitled and fleas/centipedes have too many legs that are thicc. ;]
Rosered22 : Thanks! Heh, welcome to Japan and tropics. The most interesting name I saw was Oriental Longheaded Grasshopper.

 

[EmGee]

I can't speak to most of the animals in this list, but I have hands on work experience with tarantulas and am also a student of animal science, and the tarantula in the game doesn't look like any rose hair tarantulas I've worked with. The red-knee or Chaco golden knee might be closer to the colors of the game arachnid

 

[Cheryll]

Ah okay. Thanks! I'll go edit that.

 

[Cheryll]

Ah, added past games. The coconut crab...don't look them up, they'll give you nightmares.

 

[Alienfish]

Love these lists, and I'm glad it's not Japanese giant hornet they are based off....(run!)

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Ah, added past games. The coconut crab...don't look them up, they'll give you nightmares.

I just did, bad idea xD

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[Cheryll]

I'm scarred. Honestly, them on the palm tree is enough, but the trash can for scale. NOPE! But, they live in the tropics.
More specific...Guam, The Philippines, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands (Japan), Sulawesi and Java (Indonesia), Mauritius, Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Northern Mariana Islands and Seychelles.
Basically, Northern Indian Ocean and West Pacific Ocean.

 

[MapleCake]

Giant petaltail for petaltail dragonfly
And golden stag is a golden devil stag.

 

[Cheryll]

Thank you! I'll edit that. :]

 

[AlyssaAC]

Love these lists, and I'm glad it's not Japanese giant hornet they are based off....(run!)

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I just did, bad idea xD

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I just looked at it too and omigosh... I think I'm scared of those things... O.O

 

[Cheryll]

Hehe, I caused nightmares for 2 people. That's...an accomplishment.

 

[AlyssaAC]

Hehe, I caused nightmares for 2 people. That's...an accomplishment.

Lol! You sure did! I bet I'll start dreaming of those things now.

I'm still amazed how big certain creatures get...

 

[Cheryll]

Oof, I realized...since they live on land and at a variety of places...a TBT user could see a coconut crab. Hoo, that's something.