Thanks, I see what you mean now! Using the list of species more as a guide/resource for your own observations.
Hopefully in the eventual Explore page redesign there will be a way to see all species and not just the top 500. It’s definitely a common issue.
The way I get around it currently is by using the URL filter without_taxon_id. So if I know it’s definitely not a butterfly and also definitely not a geometer or crambid, you can search for Lepidoptera and add some additional filters to the URL to exclude those groups, which starts narrowing the list down quite a bit:
Lots more about searching using that Explore page and additional URL filters here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63