甲虫学是专门研究昆虫纲鞘翅目甲虫的一门学科，是昆虫学的一个分支学科。在这个领域的从业者叫甲虫学家（coleopterist）。为了交流研究，促进学科的发展，甲虫学家们自发组织形成各种学术团队，如甲虫学家社团等。
甲虫学家社团（The Coleopterists Society）是建立在美国的一个国际性的学术 组织，在这个组织中，具有职业的甲虫学家，也有对甲虫感兴趣的业余甲虫学家。甲虫学家在谈到他们的研究工作的，常常通俗地把这项工作叫做"beetling"，即“甲虫业”或“忙碌于甲虫研究”的意思。
甲虫学的主要期刊：
①《甲虫学家》（The Coleopterist），是英国的一种关于甲虫学（鞘翅目学）研究的学术期刊，最早刊行于1992年。其前身是《甲虫学家通讯》（Coleopterist's Newsletter），创刊于1980年。
②《甲虫学家公报》（The Coleopterists Bulletin ），这是由甲虫学家社团出版的期刊。
③“Elytron”，是由欧洲甲虫学家联合会 （European Association of Coleopterology）出版的关于甲虫学的期刊。
世界著名甲虫学家名录
一、澳大利亚（Austria）
★Stephan von Breuning
★Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre
★Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid
★Johann Angelo Ferrari
★Ludwig Ganglbauer
★Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller
★Eduard Knirsch
★Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting
★Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld
★Ludwig Redtenbacher
★Pater Gabriel Strobl
二、比利时（Belgium）
★Ernest Candèze
★Félicien Chapuis
★Charles Kerremans
★Jean Théodore Lacordaire
★Auguste Lameere
三、克罗地亚（Croatia）
★Guido Nonveiller
四、捷克斯洛伐克（Czechoslovakia）
★Jan Obenberger
★Jan Daniel Preysler
五、丹麦（Denmark）
★Johan Christian Fabricius
★Otto Friedrich Müller
六、英国【England (United Kingdom)】
★Anthony A. Allen
★Herbert Edward Andrewes
★Gilbert John Arrow
★Joseph Sugar Baly
★Henry Walter Bates
★Thomas Blackburn (also Hawaii and Australia)
★George Charles Champion
★James Cook Endeavour captain.
★George Crabbe
★George Robert Crotch (also U.S.A.)
★Roy Crowson
★John Curtis
★Charles Darwin
★Horace Donisthorpe
★William Weekes Fowler
★Alexander Fry
★Eleanor Glanville
★Frederick DuCane Godman
★Henry Stephen Gorham
★Edward Wesley Janson
★Oliver Erichson Janson
★Norman H. Joy
★William Elford Leach
★John Henry Leech
★George Lewis
★Thomas Marsham
★Philip Brookes Mason
★Andrew Murray
★Frederic John Sidney Parry
★David Sharp
★William Edward Shuckard
★James Francis Stephens
★Alfred Russel Wallace
★James John Walker
★Thomas Vernon Wollaston
七、爱沙尼亚（Estonia）
★Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
八、芬兰（Finland）
★Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim
九、法国（France）
★César Marie Félix Ancey
★Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey
★Charles Nicholas Aubé
★Alfred Balachowsky
★Eugène Barthe
★Ernest Marie Louis Bedel
★Louis Beguin-Billecocq
★Nicolas Adolphe Bellevoye
★Eugène Benderitter
★Henri Bertrand
★Anatole Auguste Boieldieu
★Jules Bourgeois
★Charles N. F. Brisout
★Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet
★Louis Companyo
★Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
★Jean-Charles Chenu
★Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
★Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
★Jules Desbrochers des Loges
★Achille Deyrolle
★Robert Didier
★Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac
★André Marie Constant Duméril
★Antoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène Foudras
★Étienne Louis Geoffroy
★Joseph-Étienne Giraud
★Jean-Étienne Girard
★Auguste Jean François Grenier
★Émile Joseph Isidore Gobert
★Félix Guignot
★Alphonse Hustache
★Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val
★Charles Georges Javet
★Jean Théodore Lacordaire
★Pierre André Latreille
★Edouard Lefèvre
★Charles Eugène Leprieur
★Sylvain Auguste de Marseul
★Édouard Ménétries (also Russia)
★Pierre-Aimé Millet
★Étienne Mulsant
★René Oberthür
★Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
★Louis Pandellé
★Auguste Simon Paris
★Benoit-Philibert Perroud
★Maurice Pic
★Louis Jérôme Reiche
★Maurice Auguste Régimbart
★Claudius Rey
★Auguste Sallé
★Antoine Joseph Jean Solier
★James Thomson (entomologist) (born U.S.A)
十、德国（Germany）
★Michael Bach
★Max Bernhauer
★Philipp Bertkau
★Hans Bischoff
★Oskar Boettger
★Johann von Böber
★Johann Friedrich von Brandt
★Christian Casimir Brittinger
★Heinrich Christian Burckhardt
★Carl Gustav Calwer
★Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Clasen
★George Dieck
★Rudolph Dittrich
★Carl August Dohrn
★Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
★Franz Faldermann also Russia
★Johannes Faust
★Arnold Förster
★Ernst Friedrich Germar
★Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
★Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von Heyden
★Theodor Hildebrandt
★Adolf Horion
★Walther Hermann Richard Horn
★Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
★Carl Gustav Jablonsky
★Martin Jacoby
★Gustav Jäger
★Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter
★Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch
★Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
★Hermann Julius Kolbe
★Johann Gottlieb Kugelann
★Gustav Kunze
★Johann Christian Friedrich Märkel
★Franz Anton Menge
★Wilhelm Mink
★Wilhelm Möllenkamp
★Julius Moser
★John Nietner
★Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs
★Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
★Maximilian Perty
★Edmund Reitter
★Karl Rost
★Hermann Rudolph Schaum
★Sigmund Schenkling
★Friedrich Julius Schilsky
★Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz
★Jacob Sturm
★Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Suffrian
十一、匈牙利（Hungary）
★Elemér Bokor
★George Bornemissza
★Karel Brančik
★Ernő Csíki
★Friedrich F. Tippmann
十二、爱尔兰（Ireland）
★James Nathaniel Halbert
★Alexander Henry Haliday
★William Frederick Johnson
★Eugene O'Mahoney
★James Tardy
十三、意大利（Italy）
★Raniero Alliata di Pietratagliata
★Pietro Bargagli
★Carlo Bassi
★Flaminio Baudi di Selve
★Giuseppe Bertolini
★Franco Andrea Bonelli
★Carlo Emery
★Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme
★Raffaello Gestro
★Bernardino Halbherr
★Paolo Luigioni
★Francisco Minà Palumbo
★Carlo Passerini
★Leonello Picco
★Odorado Pirazzoli
★Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
十四、日本（Japan）
★Tusnamitsu Adachi
十五、荷兰（Netherlands）
★Coenraad Ritsema
★Johann Eusebius Voet
十六、挪威（Norway）
★Embrik Strand
十七、俄罗斯（Russia）
★Ernst von Ballion
★Maximilien Chaudoir
★Alexander Ivanovitsch Jakovlev (= Jakowlew, Jakowleff)
★Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew (=
★Jakowlev, Jakowleff= B.E )
★Nikita Rafailowitsch Kukujev
★Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
★Édouard Ménétries (also France)
★Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
★Tikhon Sergeyevich Tschitscherine
十八、西班牙（Spain）
★José María Hugo de la Fuente Morales
★Ignacio Bolívar
★Fermín Martín Piera
★Cándido Bolívar Pieltain
十九、瑞典（Sweden）
★Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
★Carl Henrik Boheman
★Charles De Geer
★Leonard Gyllenhaal
★Carl Linnaeus
★Gustaf von Paykull
★Carl Johan Schönherr
★Carl Peter Thunberg
★Carl Gustaf Thomson
二十、瑞士（Switzerland）
★Louis Agassiz (also USA)
★Andreas Bischoff-Ehinger
★Oswald Heer
★George Meyer-Darcis
★Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
★Henri Tournier
二十一、美国（the United States of America）
★Louis Agassiz (also Switzerland)
★Ross H. Arnett, Jr.
★Heath Blackmon
★Willis Blatchley
★George Robert Crotch
★William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes
★George Henry Horn
★Henry Guernsey Hubbard
★John Lawrence LeConte
★Edith Marion Patch
★Eugene Amandus Schwarz
★Herbert Huntingdon Smith
★Michael C. Thomas
二十二、真他（To be categorised）
★Herbert Edward Cox
★Thomas H.M. Gorden