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)
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)
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
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
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
