Insect-Specific Entomological Societies

This listing includes international, U.S., or North American entomological societies, associations, and groups that are focused on particular types of insects.

 

Please click on a category to jump to a listing of applicable societies: 

Coleoptera (beetles)

Diptera (flies, mosquitoes)

Heteroptera (true bugs, flower bugs, and minute pirate bugs)

Hymenoptera (ants, bees, sawfiles, and wasps)

Isoptera (termites)

Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)

Mantodea (mantids)

Neuroptera (alderflies, antlions, dobsonflies, fishflies, lacewings, owlflies, snakeflies)

Odonata (damselflies, dragonflies, darners)

Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts)

Phasmida (walking sticks)

Arachnida (mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks)
 

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Coleoptera (beetles)

The Coleopterists Society

Balfour-Browne Club (water beetles)
 

Diptera (flies, mosquitoes)

American Mosquito Control Association—mosquitoes and other pests of importance to public health

North American Dipterists Society—flies
 

Heteroptera (true bugs, flower bugs, minute pirate bugs)

International Heteropterists' Society
 

Hymenoptera (ants, bees, sawflies, wasps)

American Entomological Institute—parasitic wasps

Apimondia: International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations—bees

Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association—bees

International Bee Research Association—bees

International Society of Hymenopterists—ants, bees, sawfiles, and wasps

International Union for the Study of Social Insects
 

Isoptera (termites)

International Isoptera Society
 

Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)

Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

International Butterfly Breeders Association

The Lepidopterists' Society

North American Butterfly Association
 

Mantodea (mantids)

Mantis Study Group
 

Neuroptera (alderflies, antlions, dobsonflies, fishflies, lacewings, owlflies, snakeflies)

International Association for Neuropterology

The Neuropterists' Homepage
 

Odonata (damselflies, dragonflies, and darners)

Dragonfly Society of the Americas

International Dragonfly Fund

International Odonatological Foundation

Specialist Group for Systematic and Phylogenetic Odonatology

Worldwide Dragonfly Association
 

Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts)

Association for Applied Acridology—grasshoppers and locusts

The Orthopterists' Society
 

Phasmida (walking sticks)

Phasmid Study Group
 

Arachnida (mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks)

Acarological Society of America—mites

American Arachnological Society—scorpions, spiders, ticks, mites

International Society of Arachnology—scorpions, spiders, ticks, mites

Systematic and Applied Acarology Society—mites