People & ListServs

Systematist Contact Resources

• Antbase.org
• Coleopterists Society
• Community of Science
• Directory of Scale Insect Systematists
• Entomological Collections Network
• Heteropterists Society
• Neuropterists Directory
• World Diptera Systematists
• World Taxonomist Database
• Xerces Society

Entomology Listservs
General

• Canadian-Arthropods
• ENTOMO-L
• INVERTS-L
• SYSTEMATICS

Taxon-Specific

• ACAROLOGY
• BEE-L
• BOMBUS-L
• Chironomidae-L
• DPLEX-L
• EGW-L
• ENT-CHN
• Greenbug-L
• LEPS-L
• MALARIA
• Mosquito-L
• NEUROPTERA-L
• PAG-L
• SCARABS-L
• Sciaroidea_L
• Simuliidae
• Syrphidae
• TX-BUTTERFLY
• TX-ENTO

Museum-Related

• ECN-L
• MUSEUM-L
• NHCOLL-L
• Permit-L
• TAXACOM-L

ESA and ECN Contacts

• ESA National Headquarters
• ECN (requires you be a member to access)

Biography Websites

• Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) List of Workers
• DEI biographical information on world entomologists (Entomologists of the World Biography Database)
• Snow Entomology Museum Photo Album of Entomologists

Other Internet Resource Index Sites

• Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
• NCSU Systematic Entomology Guide to Online Insect Systematic Resources

History/Obituaries/Compendia (selected)

• 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, 2nd 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.