Harley Books

Britain has a number of specialist entomological publishers: * Amateur Entomologists' Society (http://www.amentsoc.org/) publishes various entomological handbooks, as well as the ''Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society''. * British Wildlife Publishing has published identification guides to

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

and

Odonata Odonata is an order of flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. Members of the group first appeared during the Triassic, though members of their total group, Odonatoptera, first appeared in Late Carboniferous. The two comm ...

. * E. W. Classey was based in

Faringdon Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, south-west of Oxford, north-west of Wantage and east-north-east of Swindon. It extends to the River Thames in the north; the highest ground is on the Rid ...

, Oxfordshire. It produced reprints of Norman Joy's ''

A Practical Handbook of British Beetles ''A Practical Handbook of British Beetles'' is a two-volume work on the British beetle fauna, by Norman H. Joy, first published by H. F. & G. Witherby in January 1932. Contents Volume one (xxviii + 622 pages) consists of the text (largely a ...

'' in 1976 and 1997. No longer trading. *

Field Studies Council Field Studies Council is an educational charity based in the UK, which offers opportunities for people to learn about and engage with the outdoors. History It was established as the Council for the Promotion of Field Studies in 1943 with the ...

(http://www.field-studies-council.org/publications/index.aspx) publishes the

AIDGAP AIDGAP is an acronym for Aid to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants. The AIDGAP series is a set of books published by the Field Studies Council. They are intended to enable students and interested non-specialists to identify ...

series of identification guides and since 2006 the

Royal Entomological Society Handbooks ''Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects'' is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise ...

as well as an extensive range of fold-out identification charts. Some of the earliest insect ID guides are available for free download from http://www.field-studies-council.org/fieldstudies/category/terrestrial.htm. * Gem Publishing Company (https://web.archive.org/web/20070930125146/http://www.gempublishing.co.uk/) is based in Oxfordshire. It is best known as the publishing house for the entomological journals ''

Entomologist's Gazette The ''Entomologist's Gazette'' is a British entomological journal. It contains articles and notes on the biology, ecology, distribution, taxonomy and systematics of all orders of insects, but with a bias towards Lepidoptera. It is produced quart ...

'' and ''

Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' is a British entomological journal, founded by a staff of five editors – T. Blackburn, H. G. Knaggs, M.D., R. McLachlan, F.L.S., E. C. Rye and H. T. Stainton – and first published in 1864.Wale, Matthew ...

''. No longer trading. * Harley Books is based in

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colches ...

, Essex. It is best known as the publisher of the multi-volume series '' Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland''. *

Hillside Books, Canterbury Hillside Books, Canterbury was a publisher specialising in books on entomology and small equipment associated with this science. Origin It was established in 1989, directed by Lydie Leforestier. Initially it was in Canterbury, England but then m ...

''

Publisher of ''

The Beetles of the World ''The Beetles of the World'' is a series of books devoted to Coleopterology. Sciences Nat published the 24 first volumes; the following volumes and the supplements were published by Hillside Books, Canterbury. The first book authored by Jacques Ri ...

'' series, volumes 25-30 and their supplements, ''The Parnassiinae of the World'' by Jean-Claude Weis

''The Genus Morpho'' by Patrick Blandi

* Pemberley Books (Publishing) (http://www.pemberleybooks.com/). Since 2007 Pemberley Books has been publishing the journals ''

'' and ''

''. They also have the back stock of the entomological publications of Gem Publishing and of E. W. Classey. * Peregrine Productions (http://www.bombus.freeserve.co.uk/) publishes a range of laminated insect identification plates. * Pisces Conservation (http://www.pisces-conservation.com/softebooks.html) publishes a wide range of entomological and other titles, in print and on CD-ROM, including 'Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles', 'British Tortricoid Moths', many other

Ray Society The Ray Society is a scientific text publication society that publishes works devoted principally to British flora and fauna. As of 2019, it had published 181 volumes. Its publications are predominantly academic works of interest to naturalists, zo ...

monographs, and F.N. Pierce's 'Genitalia of the British Lepidoptera' series. * Siri Scientific Press (http://www.siriscientificpress.co.uk) is a specialist publisher focusing on arachnology, entomology and palaeontology (especially of insects in amber). Current works in preparation include on the fossil insects of southwest England. They are currently seeking new authors on the above topics. {{DEFAULTSORT:British entomological publishers British Entomological British literature-related lists