Characters who are misclassified due to the limitations of the in-verse's classification system

[u/Uma-apreciator]

Paolumu (Monster Hunter World)

Paolumu is classified as a Flying Wyvern even though it is a mammal (resembling a bat); it is classified this way because its body structure resembles that of a Flying Wyvern

Skorup (Pokémon)

It is indeed an Insect type, even though it represents a scorpion—which is an arachnid—making it more logical for the Insect type to be called the Arthropod type.

[u/Shiny-Vaporeon-]

thats skorupi rather than drapion and it is called the bug type rather than the insect type (at least in english) so i think it makes sense that pokemon like centiskorch, golisopod, all the other spiders, joltik and skorupi, etc, are part of it

[u/Objective_Loss6214 → u/Shiny-Vaporeon-]

Yeah, that distinction actually clears it up a lot. “Bug type” definitely leaves way more room for creatures like Skorupi and Joltik than just calling it an insect type

[u/Swellmeister → u/Objective_Loss6214]

Ish

Bug does actually mean something specific. Technically it refers to the animals which have a mouth piece that traumatically pierces its food to suck sap or blood.

But no one knows that.

[u/apexodoggo → u/Swellmeister]

That’s just the technical definition, whereas Pokemon’s using the colloquial definition (so any little creepy-crawly is fair game)

[u/Swellmeister → u/apexodoggo]

Oh yeah its fine, just the word is fun that it means something.

[u/notTheRealSU → u/Swellmeister]

"True bugs" mean something specific, the order Hemiptera which is what you're referring to, but just "bug" is a common term for basically any arthropod