Insecta Mundi·In numbers

The journal in numbers

What we publish, who writes it and how the journal has grown — recalculated automatically every time a new article goes online.

Articles: 319; in the online archive (2020–2026)
Authors: 388; different people
Pages: 6,251; of systematics
Orders: 14; insects & other arthropods
Families: 97; covered so far
New taxa papers: 119; describing new taxa

Taxonomic coverage

Which orders we publish on

Coleoptera lead the way: 58% of all articles deal with them, across 41 families. In total the journal covers 97 families in 14 orders of insects, millipedes, arachnids and springtails.

Click an order to see its families.

- Scarabaeidae24
- Cerambycidae20
- Dermestidae18
- Eucnemidae18
- Buprestidae16
- Cleridae13
- Cicindelidae11
- Chrysomelidae8
- Curculionidae8
- Erotylidae7
- Elateridae5
- Carabidae4
- Lampyridae4
- Lucanidae3
- Nitidulidae3
- Cybocephalidae2
- Disteniidae2
- Geotrupidae2
- Mordellidae2
- Ochodaeidae2
- Ptinidae2
- Bostrichidae1
- Bruchidae1
- Clambidae1
- Dytiscidae1
- Epimetopidae1
- Euxestidae1
- Glaphyridae1
- Glaresidae1
- Gyrinidae1
- Haliplidae1
- Histeridae1
- Hydraenidae1
- Hydrophilidae1
- Laemophloeidae1
- Leiodidae1
- Meloidae1
- Mycteridae1
- Noteridae1
- Psephenidae1
- Silvanidae1
- Pompilidae19
- Apidae5
- Halictidae4
- Formicidae2
- Ichneumonidae2
- Mutillidae2
- Aphelinidae1
- Colletidae1
- Crabronidae1
- Euctenizidae1
- Megachilidae1
- Plataspidae1
- Scelionidae1
- Tortricidae6
- Hesperiidae5
- Riodinidae4
- Gelechiidae2
- Gracillariidae2
- Lycaenidae2
- Sphingidae2
- Geometridae1
- Lycaeinidae1
- Noctuidae1
- Nymphalidae1
- Sesiidae1
- Apterouridae1
- Caseyidae1
- Chrysopidae2
- Phylliidae1
- Thripidae2
- Argasidae1
- Entomobryidae1

Growth

Articles per year

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2020202120222023202420252026

2026 is still in progress · 2021 not yet in the online archive.

Most studied

Top 10 families

Our authors

Most published authors

1Frank E. Kurczewski19 articles
2Graham J. Holloway19 articles
3Robert L. Otto17 articles
4Paul E. Skelley14 articles
5Antonio Santos-Silva12 articles
6Jürgen Wiesner10 articles
7Soo-Jung Suh10 articles
8Andreas Herrmann8 articles

Teamwork

2.2

authors per article on average — and 37% are written by a single author.

New to science

37%

of articles describe new species, genera or other new taxa in their title.

Longest article

369 pages

Descriptions of three hundred new species of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

No. 1148 · 2025

Biggest team

11 authors

First report of corn leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the USA Midwest Suction Trap Network

No. 1110 · 2025

How these numbers are made. Figures cover the 319 articles in the online archive (2020–2026) and are recalculated every time the website is updated. Orders and families come from the taxa each article is tagged with; a family is placed in the order it is most often tagged with, and an article can count for more than one order. Authors are matched by surname and first initial. New taxa are counted from article titles.