People

Systematist Contact Resources

antbase.org – http://antbase.org/databases/directory.htm

Coleopterists Society – http://www.coleopsoc.org/default.asp?Action=Show_Membership&ID=MemberDir

Community of Science – http://expertise.cos.com/

Directory of Scale Insect Systematists: http://www.agri.gov.il/Publications/systematists/

Entomological Collections Network – http://ecnweb.org/index.php

World Diptera Systematists – http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dipterists/

World Taxonomist Database – http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wtd.php

Xerces society – http://www.xerces.org/

Entomology list servers

General

Canadian-Arthropods mailing list -  http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/mailinglist.html

ENTOMO-L – http://www.ent.iastate.edu/mailinglist/entomo-l/

INVERTS-L – https://listserv.hawaii.edu/archives/inverts-l.html

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection (SPNHC) - http://www.spnhc.org

SYSTEMATICS – http://si-listserv.si.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SYSTEMATICS

Taxon-Specific

ACAROLOGY – http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/acarolist.html

BEE-L - http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/

BOMBUS-L – http://www.beesource.com/bee-l/bombusl.htm

Chironomidae-L - http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/~ethanbr/chiro/internet_res.html

DPLEX-L - http://www.monarchwatch.org/dplex/index.htm

EGW-L - http://www.hear.org/hearlists/egw.htm

ENT-CHN - http://taex001.tamu.edu/mailman/listinfo/ent-chn

Greenbug-L - http://listserv.okstate.edu/Archives/greenbug-l.html

LEPS-L - http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/ent/ent_LEPS.html

MALARIA - http://www.wehi.edu.au/MalDB-www/discuss/listserv.html

Mosquito-L - http://www.ent.iastate.edu/mailinglist/mosquito-l/ 

NEUROPTERA-L – http://www.domeus.de/groups/neuroptera

PAG-L - https://listserv.hawaii.edu/archives/pag-l.html

SCARABS-L - http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SCARABS-L

Simuliidae - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/SIMULIIDAE.html

Syrphidae - http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae/

TX-BUTTERFLY – http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/tx-butterfly.html

TX-ENTO - http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=tx-ento

Museum & Collections Related Listserves

TAXACOM – http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom

NHCOLL-L - http://www.peabody.yale.edu/databases/db_nhcoll.html

ECN-L - http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=ECN-L

MUSEUM-L – http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MUSEUM-L

ESA and ECN contacts

ESA National Headquarters – http://www.entsoc.org/membership/toolbox/contact_esa/index.htm

ECN (requires you be a member to access) -  http://ecnweb.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3

History/Obituaries

Biography Websites

Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) List of Workers - http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/listofworkers.htm

DEI biographical information on world entomologists - http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/dei/php_e/biograph/biograph.php

Entomologists of the World Biography Database -  ;http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/dei/php_e/biograph/index.htm  

Snow Entomology Museum Photo Album of Entomologistss -   http://www.nhm.ku.edu/ksem/features/picttour.htm

Compendia/References

Carpenter, M. M. 1945. Bibliography of biographies of entomologists. American Midland Naturalist 33(1):1-116.

Carpenter, M. M. 1953. Supplement. Ibid. 50(2):257-348.

Gilbert, P. 1977. A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists. British Museum (Natural History), London, 455 pp.

Gilbert, P. C. J. Hamilton. 1990. Entomology: A guide to information sources, 2^nd Ed. Mansell. 259 pp. [journals, societies, etc.]

Howard, L. O. 1930.  A history of applied entomology (somewhat anecdotal).  Smithsonian Misc. Collections 84:1-564.

Mallis, A. 1971. American Entomologists. Rutgers Univ. Press, 549pp. (detailed history of many American entomologists)

Osborn, H. 1937. Fragments of Entomological History: Including some personal recollections of men and events. Part I (394 pp.) & 1946. Part II (Spahr & Glenn Co., Columbus).

Osborn, H. 1952. A brief history of entomology, including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits. Spahr and Glenn Co., Columbus, 303 pp.

Other Internet Resource Index Sites

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources – http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/

North Carolina State University Systematic Entomology Guide to Online Insect Systematic Resources – http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/index_txt.html