This list of arthropod alien species is limited to species and groups of genetically related extraterrestrial organisms that exhibit physical features, attributes or forms similar to, but potentially far from a typical Terran species of arthropod while excluding specific references to individual organisms. This list includes sapient, non-sapient and hybrid forms of alien arthropods.
Arachnids (Battlelords of the 23rd Century, Starship Troopers)
The Arachnid Omnivoracity (Starfire)
Bees (Doctor Who)
Blisk (Destroy All Humans! 2)
Boglodite (Men in Black 3)
Brood (Marvel Comics)
"Bug" (Starship Troopers)
Bugs (Men in Black)
Collector (Mass Effect 2)
The Colony (Final Days of the Planet Earth)
Cerebrocrustacean (Ben 10: Alien Force)
Cinnrusskin (Sector General)
Cragmite (Ratchet & Clank)
Drak (Farscape)
Driel (Dark Planet)
Antlion swarm (Half-Life 2)
Formic (Ender's Game)
Gaim (Babylon 5)
Gromflomites (Rick and Morty)
Inibit (Genesis Climber Mospeada) (called "Invid" in the Robotech American adaptation)
Insects in The History of the Galaxy
Insects in Castle series
Ilwrath (Star Control)
Irken Empire (Invader Zim)
Klackons (Master of Orion)
Keepers (Mass Effect)
Klick (Star*Drive)
Klikiss (Saga of Seven Suns)
Kwai (DC Comics)
The Lexx race (Lexx)
Locust (listed under insectoid because of their superorganism-like society, the various Locust types are similar to a variety of creatures such as arachnids, humans, monkeys, bats, Queen type hive insects, jellyfish, and squid) (Gears of War)
Macra (Doctor Who)
Majat (Alliance-Union universe)
Mantis (Conquest: Frontier Wars)
Marmosian (Ascendancy)
Martian (Quatermass and the Pit)
Menoptra (Doctor Who) (butterfly-like)
Mesklinites (Mission of Gravity) (millipede-like)
Mind worm (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)
Nagrab (Dan Dare)
Nestbuilders (Revelation Space universe)
Orthopterran (Ben 10: Omniverse)
Optera (Doctor Who)
Oryctini (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
"Prawn" (District 9)
Precursor (Halo)
Rachni (Mass Effect)
Racnoss (Doctor Who) (spider-like)
Re'tu (Stargate SG-1)
Riders, highly aggressive inhabitants of Mother (Remnants)
Scrin (Command & Conquer 3)
Shadow (Babylon 5)
Shivan (Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War)
"Space Spiders" (Lost in Space)
Spider Aliens (Valiant Comics)
Lepidopterran (Ben 10)
Tachidi (Master of Orion)
Taxxon (Animorphs) (Centipede/worm-like)
Tecreasean (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
Tetramite (Ratchet & Clank)
Than (Andromeda)
Thargoid (Elite)
Thranx (Humanx Commonwealth)
"The Titans" (Yoko Tsuno)
Tyranid (Warhammer 40,000)
Tractator (Doctor Who)
Team Space Bug (Kaiju Big Battel)
Uchuu Kaijuu ("Space Monsters") (Gunbuster)
Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah (Star Control)
Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)
Vajra (Macross Frontier)
Vashta Nerada (presumably insectoid in nature, swarms of them can reduce a living organism to bones in seconds, then animating the remaining skeleton) (Doctor Who)
Vespid (Warhammer 40,000)
Vrusk (Star Frontiers)
Wreaves (ConSentiency universe)
Wirrn (Doctor Who) (wasp-like)
Xeno (Alone in the Dark)
Xenomorph (Alien)
Xindi-Insectoids (Star Trek)
Yanme'e (Halo)
Zarbi (Doctor Who) (ant-like)
Zerg (StarCraft)
