True. I did a bit of research. I assume it was named after Karl Pfankuch who was a German entomologist (specialising in ichneumon wasps), active during the time where Hylaeus was described.
The etymology for the surname Pfan(n)kuch states that it is an occupational surname for confectionaries. It does come from the word “Pfannkuchen” though.
So, at least Hylaeus pfankuchi was indirectly named after pancakes :D
Now to make the common name “Pancake Fly”…
Pancake bee, but yes. I‘m all for it! :D
Poop Droplet - Acontia discoidea
Yellow-billed Cuckoo is sometimes called the Rain Crow because it is thought to call before rainstorms.
Good to know
Well ‘Bugs’ can refer to any Panarthropod, so it would be wierd even trying to mke such a taxon.
Thoughtful apamea moth.
Horned Lark—Banding code is “HOLA”
Hello!
Bonjur.
And I have heard Horned Lark hollabacks. (The Arsenal Refuge can be a very noisy place in springtime.)
Boops boops. I love that fish
I do too! (Actually found out about it in the Halloween Google Doodle 
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Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)
Bone-eating snotflower (Osedax mucofloris). It’s a worm, not a flower.
I looked up “katydid” in Wiktionary and found “hepokatti” in Finnish. “Hepo” is “horse”; none of the others had anything I recognized as “horse”, so I clicked on it and found it means “horsecat”.
The German for “turtle” is “Schildkröte”, which means “shieldtoad”.
Here’s what I’ve found on iNat:
I’ve been looking for some time for these names in iNat (randomly searching for animals and words that would sound weird in a animal’s name)
Titmouse. A bird. Who in their right mind names a bird this. The answer…some random 16 year old.
Wait until you find about the genus Parus…
(In actuality the names of these birds pre-date the usage of the word you’re thinking of ;) )