History Main / InsectoidAliens

** ''Characters/BeastWars'': A portion of the antagonist Predacon faction transform into various Arthropods including wasps and spiders (the female forms, ironically despite being apparently male). One former protagonist Maximal, Blackarachnia is also a spider.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'': The Lectroids are ant people (hence the red and black factions). They're not evil as a species. The bad guys in the movie are rogue criminals hated by their own government because of their FantasticRacism.

* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'': The large intelligent spiders. Although the term "alien" is arguable, as they're transplanted Earthly jumping spiders mutated by an ancient human experiment gone awry on a terraformed planet.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Day in Beaumont", Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith frantically try to warn the authorities that a race of insectoid aliens, whose FlyingSaucer they saw crash, are [[AlienInvasion planning to invade Earth]] in 1955. [[spoiler:Kevin and Faith later discover that [[TomatoInTheMirror they are members of this race themselves]] and that what they think is Earth is really Altair IV. H.G. Orson explains to them that they are taking part in a commando training simulation for their race's planned invasion of Earth and that they are experiencing memory loss]].

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' features the Geonosians, who resemble giant humanoid locusts and live in immense earthen hives, as prominent villains.

* ''Film/QuatermassAndThePit'': The Martians look like large locusts.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'', the first alien female [[AnythingThatMoves Dimitri]] scores with is a green insectoid. Unfortunately, Shuar turns out to be a ClingyJealousGirl... and a hitwoman for the GOB. She alternates between pursuing him for the former and latter reasons for most of the comic. Meanwhile, her mother convinces Dimitri to license his grandmother's cookie recipe through her, and becomes wealthy when [[AlienArtsAreAppreciated Russian tea cookies become popular throughout the galaxy]].

* ''Webcomic/TheLastHumanInACrowdedGalaxy'': The title character's (presumably) adoptive mother is Shenya the Widow, a retired archaeologist who happens to be a human-sized arachnid "nightmarish death machine" from a ProudWarriorRace. She does admit that it can be occasionally isolating, even in the vast diversity of galactic society.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': The Nemesites are a race of ''butterfly'' people, though they frequently use technology to [[VoluntaryShapeShifting disguise themselves as humans]].

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon The Monster of Peladon]]": The ambassador from Alpha Centauri (who returns a few more times over the course of the series) is a green caterpillar-like creature with multiple limbs, and a face consisting of one gigantic eye.

* ''Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon'': The ambassador from Alpha Centauri (who returns a few more times over the course of the series) is a green caterpillar-like creature with multiple limbs, and a face consisting of one gigantic eye.

* The Brood from ''ComicBook/XMen'' are [[Franchise/{{Aliens}} Xenomorph]] [[{{Expy}}/expies]] drawn to look more like actual Earth insects (wings, lots of legs, don't stand upright).

* ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'': Creator/HGWells's Selenites, the race of intelligent insectoids with a HiveCasteSystem who farm giant caterpillar-creatures on the moon, are the undisputed UrExample for all of fiction.

%%* ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'': The Selenites are among the earliest in fiction.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': The appearance of the Zerg units borrows from all kinds of animal sources, including insectoid or arthropodal traits. The Zerg are also ruled by a HiveMind.

%%* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Buzz Buzz.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' introduced alien Pokémon called the Ultra Beasts, two of which are bug types. Buzzwole and Pheromosa look like a humanoid mosquito and cockroach respectively. The Grass/Steel-type Kartana, which resembles an origami samurai, is also kind of mantis-like.