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This list of fictional arthropods is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. It is restricted to notable insect, arachnid and crustacean characters from the world of fiction.

## Literature

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Aragog | Spider | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | Aragog was an Acromantula—an enormous, sentient spider capable of speech—who made a unique clicking noise as he moved in search of prey. Hagrid raised him from an egg as a Hogwarts student. In his third year at Hogwarts, Hagrid was caught talking to Aragog in the dungeons by Tom Riddle, who alleged that Aragog was the "Monster of Slytherin" and that Hagrid had opened the Chamber of Secrets.
Archy | Cockroach  | archy and mehitabel et seq  | Don Marquis | Archy was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left. Archy would climb up onto the typewriter and hurl himself at the keys, laboriously typing out stories of the daily challenges and travails of a cockroach.
Arianwen | Spider  | The Snow Spider | Jenny Nimmo |
Charlotte A. Cavatica | Spider  | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | A spider who befriends Wilbur the pig; she at first seems bloodthirsty due to her method of catching food.
The Gnat | Gnat | Alice Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | The Gnat seems to love jokes; however, he doesn't like telling them himself—he prefers others to tell the jokes.
The Louse and the Flea | Louse, Flea | The Louse and the Flea | Traditional.  | Characters in a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Doris | Bee | Doris the Buzzy Bee |  |
Madam Octa  | Spider | Cirque du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan | Darren Shan | A rare if not extinct species of very large spider used by the vampire, Mr. Crepsley, to perform in his stage act, where he communicates with her telepathically. Her venomous bite is extremely deadly, as shown when she bites Steve Leonard and he almost dies (surviving only thanks to antivenin).
Maya  | Bee | Maya the Bee | Waldemar Bonsels | Main character in a popular series of German children's novels, later adapted into films and TV animated series.
Mr. Mosquito  | Mosquito | Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitos from Mercury | Dav Pilkey | The main antagonist of the book. He hates living on Mercury because the extreme temperatures ruin his everyday activities. In order to deal with these issues, he decides to take over Earth with the help of some mutant mosquitoes he created with his fingernails.
Miss Spider  | Spider  | Miss Spider | David Kirk |
Miss Spider | Spider  | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl |
Seven flies  | Fly | The Brave Little Tailor | Traditional.  | The plot of this famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is set in motion by the fact that the tailor kills seven flies in one blow. When he brags about this people assume he is talking about giants, causing the king to send him away on a mission to kill a giant that torments the country.
Shelob | Spider  | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | A giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. She appears at the end of the fourth book, second volume (The Two Towers) of The Lord of the Rings. She is said to be a child of Ungoliant.
Sergeant Stinkbug  | Stinkbug | Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn | Dav Pilkey | The main antagonist of the book. He is the worst litterbug living on Saturn, and he grows to hate living on Saturn because of how polluted it is. He decides to take over Earth so he can pollute a new planet, but this attempt is not successful.
Ungoliant | Spider  | The Silmarillion | J. R. R. Tolkien | Described as an evil spirit in the form of a spider. She is mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, and plays a supporting role in The Silmarillion. Her origins are unclear, as Tolkien's writings only reveal than that she is from "before the world". She is one of a few instances, along with Tom Bombadil and the Cats of Queen Berúthiel.
Manticore | Arachnid  | A Song of Ice and Fire | George R.R. Martin | Is said to possess highly toxic venom and is incredibly aggressive and dangerous species of spider. While small, are shown to be incredibly fast and agile. Also portrayed in the TV series adaptation Game of Thrones

### Comics

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Amedee  | Fly | Urbanus | One of Urbanus' pets. He is able to talk and by far the most intelligent character in the series, bordering to genius.[1]
Bug Daddy and Chile  | Bugs  | Pogo |
Ferdy the Ant  | Ant | Ferda Mravenec | Created by Ondřej Sekora and adapted in an animated TV series in 1984. He is an adventurous, hard working ant who is in love with Miss Ladybird.
Gnorm Gnat | Gnat | Gnorm Gnat | A gnat who Davis says plays the "straight man" who sometimes behaves like the character Walter Mitty.[2]
Serenity/Twinkly Herbert/Dr. Blinkbottom  | Firefly | Homestuck | Serenity is a small firefly which speaks Morse Code, to inspire her friends.
Hawthorne | Hermit crab | Sherman's Lagoon | The scheming hermit crab of the strip. He is rude, abrasive, insulting, stingy, and a borderline criminal. Hawthorne, unlike other hermit crabs, prefers a beer can rather than a seashell.
Maya | Bee | The Adventures of Maya the Bee |
Miz flea  | Flea | Pogo |
The Mother Grub  | Mother Grub  | Homestuck | The Mother Grub is the parental figure of Kanaya, and lays the eggs of the troll species.
Reggie and Alf  | Unspecified insects  | Pogo |
Scarrafone  | Cockroach | Pinky | An expert in road dustbins.[3]
Weber  | Ladybird | Weber | A ladybird in paper hat and star of Gommaar Timmermans' comic series Weber.[4]

### Legends

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Anansi | Spider  | West Africa | Ananse tales are some of the best-known in West Africa[5] The stories made up an exclusively oral tradition, and indeed Ananse himself was synonymous with skill and wisdom in speech.[6] It was as remembered and told tales that they crossed to the Caribbean and other parts of the New World with captives via the Atlantic slave trade.[7]
Arachne | Spider  | Ancient Greece | In Greek mythology Arachne was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider.
Jorōgumo | Spider  | Japan | A spider demon who can shapeshift into a seductive woman.

## Media

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### Film

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Alpha Scorpion  | Scorpion | The Black Scorpion | A giant black scorpion which kills every other giant scorpion and raids Mexico City.
Buzz and Scuzz  | Horse-fly | Racing Stripes | Two horse-fly brothers who each have a taste in music.
Caterpillar  | Caterpillar | The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | A yellow caterpillar who helps Elmo whose size is not in potential
Dim  | Rhinoceros Beetle | A Bug's Life | A large blue beetle and member of P. T. Flea's circus.
Katy  | Caterpillar | Katy La Oruga | A green caterpillar, who is full of curiosity and up for adventure.
Mooch  | Green bottle fly  | G-Force | A green bottle fly who is a member of the G-Force.
Mothra | Giant moth  | Mothra |
Onibaba  | Giant Crustacean  | Pacific Rim | Resembles a crustacean and Japanese temple. It is best known for orphaning Mako Mori during the Kaiju attacks.
Kumonga | Giant spider  | Son of Godzilla |

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Antales  | A kaiju-like scorpion  | Ultraman Leo |
Banpira  | A kaiju-like spider  | Ultraman Nexus |
Cococinel  | Ladybird | Cococinel | Main character in a French-Belgian children's TV series.
The Killer Bees | Killer bees | Saturday Night Live | A group of bees in a recurring sketch on the show
Maya  | Bee | Maya the Bee | Main character in a popular German TV series based on the original novels.
Pepe the King Prawn | Prawn | Muppets Tonight |
Seymour  | Spider | H.R. Pufnstuf | One of Witchiepoo's assistants.
Nahoul | Bumble Bee | Tomorrow's Pioneers | the aggressively anti-Semitic bumblebee who acted as co-host for the Hamas-broadcast children's TV series between July and February 2007 when according to the plot he was martyred. Hates cats.

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Atom Ant | Ant | The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show | A superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (sharing top billing with Secret Squirrel). In syndication, Atom Ant aired alongside Precious Pupp and The Hillbilly Bears.
B.A.H. Humbug  | Insect fictional  | The Stingiest Man in Town |
Barry B. Benson | Honey bee  | Bee Movie | Barry B. Benson (Voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) is "just an ordinary bee" in a hive in Sheep Meadow, Central Park in New York City.
Bim Heimlich  | Caterpillar  | A Bug's Life | An overweight caterpillar who speaks with a German accent and longs to be a butterfly.
Bumble  | Bumblebee  | Fifi and the Flowertots | Bumble, also known as Fuzzbuzz in the United States, is Fifi's best friend who isn't good at landing.
Cecil  | Caterpillar  | The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue | A caterpillar who helps Timmy and Jenny on their journey.
Charotte  | Honey bee | Jewelpet | A yellow and brown striped honey bee who is the Challenging Spirit (in the case of Jewelpet Twinkle, she symbolizes the Confusion Removal). She wears a flower-shaped purple jewel necklace and a purple crystal bow on her head. She has fuchsia antennae and her stinger is thistle-colored.
Chip and Skip  | Dung beetle | Camp Lazlo | Two unintelligent, revolting, clueless and dumb beetle twins.
Crazy Joe | Hermit crab | Shark Tale | Voiced by David P. Smith, he is a deranged hermit crab who lives in a dumpster near the Whalewash.
Cri-Kee  | Cricket  | Mulan | A cricket who is a sidekick of Mushu.
Digit  | Cockroach  | An American Tail |
Echizen Crab  | Crab | Sabagebu! |
Eugene H. Krabs[8] | Crab | SpongeBob SquarePants | The greedy, money-loving founder and owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant, where SpongeBob works as a frycook.[9]
Francoeur  | Flea  | A Monster in Paris |
Gregory  | Cricket  | Dragon Ball Z |
Jiminy Cricket | Cricket | Pinocchio | The Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" (Italian: Il Grillo Parlante), a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book Pinocchio, which was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940. Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel
Dee Dee, Joey and Marky | Cockroaches | Oggy and the Cockroaches | The three main character cockroaches from the show.
Flik  | Ant | A Bug's Life | An individualist and would-be inventor.
Frank  | Tarantula | The Loud House | The school’s pet tarantula.
Hal  | Cockroach  | WALL-E | A cockroach who is WALL-E's friend.
Hardcase  | Tiger beetle | Turbo Fast | A tiger beetle who envies Turbo's fame and wishes to outrace him, even resorting to cheating. He does not tolerate losing, and even threatens to ravage Turbotown until he wins a race.
Hayaku  | Cricket  | Turbo Fast | A Japanese cricket who pretends to be in love with Turbo in order to beat him.
Herbert  | Flea  | T.U.F.F. Puppy | A tough, strict and good-natured flea who is the leader of T.U.F.F.
Herman | Beetle | Bootle Beetle | A beetle with his life represented in flashbacks. Commonly Donald serves as his nemesis.
Hopper  | Grasshopper | A Bug's Life | The main antagonist of the film who is the ruthless leader of the grasshopper gang.
Hova  | Ant | The Ant Bully | A worker ant who is assigned to teach Lucas about the ways of the ant.
Hutch the Honeybee | Honeybee | The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee | The son of a Queen bee, Hutch is separated from his mother when his native beehive is destroyed by an attack of wasps. The series follows Hutch as he searches for his missing mother, in the midst of a frequently hostile nature.[10]
Jacques  | Cleaner Shrimp | Finding Nemo | A French-accented cleaner shrimp who likes to clean the tank.
Jeff  | Spider  | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | A giant spider who believes Billy is his father.
Maggie Pesky | Fly | The Buzz on Maggie | A 13 year old teenage fly who dreams of becoming a rock star. She attends Buzzdale Academy with her best friend Rayna Cartflight and her arch nemesis Dawn Swatworthy. She has her mother and father named Frieda and Chauncey Pesky, her little sister who is a maggot named Bella Pesky, and has her younger and older brothers named Pupert and Aldrin Pesky. She is voiced by Jessica DiCicco.
Ms. Tarantula  | Redknee tarantula | The Bad Guys | A sharp-tongued, equally sarcastic expert hacking redknee tarantula also known as "Webs" or "Mata Hairy" and the only female of the gang.
Larry the Lobster  | Lobster | SpongeBob SquarePants | A muscular red lobster who frequently lifts weights at Goo Lagoon.
Pinchy  | Lobster | The Simpsons | A lobster Homer buys to fatten up and eat in the episode Lisa Gets an "A".
Ray  | Firefly | The Princess and the Frog | Ally of Tiana and Prince Naveen.
Sebastian | Crab | The Little Mermaid | (full name Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian), he is a red Jamaican crab, the servant of King Triton.
Sheldon J. Plankton | Planktonic copepod | SpongeBob SquarePants | Owner of the Chum Bucket and arch enemy of Mr. Krabs. He is always trying to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula but is always unsuccessful. He often thinks and speaks of evil anarchist points of view and wishes to rule the world. He sells chum which is disgusting slop of innards and blood that is often used to attract sharks and other predatory fish. He has a computer wife named Karen, who is actually a "W.I.F.E." (Wired Integrated Female Electroencephalograph). Karen usually gives Plankton ideas to steal the Krabby Patty formula, which he often censors out and takes them as his. Plankton and Karen's marital relationship is often shown as very dysfunctional. His first appearance was in "Plankton!".
Spike | Bee  | Cartoon Disney Shorts | A small aggressive bee who is frequently an enemy of Donald and Pluto. In many of his appearances he is on a quest to gather food. He is a one-time friend to Donald in the Disney short Let's Stick Together (1952)
Tamatoa  | Coconut Crab | Moana | A giant crustacean who is the main antagonist to Moana and Maui when they visit Lalotai (The Realm of Monsters). Notable for collecting gold treasure which he sings a song about.
Taxi Crab  | Crab  | Jungle Junction | A crab who runs a smoothie shop
The Ants  | Ant | Happy Tree Friends | A family of ants are the recurring characters who kills or tortures Sniffles. The Ants get revenge by torturing and killing the anthropomorphic anteater in the most sadistic ways possible, most notably in Crazy Ant-ics, Tongue Twister Trouble, A Hard Act to Swallow, Suck It Up and Tongue in Cheek.
The weevils  | Bugs  | Iggy Arbuckle |
Wally B.  | Bumblebee | The Adventures of André & Wally B. | Wally B. is a large quadrupedal bee who teases André after the latter woke up. Although Wally B. is a drone bee, he has a stinger that bends once stung.
Wanna-Bee  | Bee  | T.U.F.F. Puppy | Wanna-Bee is a member of F.L.O.P.P. who first appeared in "The Spelling Bee", where he temporarily operated his stand-alone villain career as the Spelling Bee.
Wilbur  | Grasshopper | Cartoon Disney Shorts | Goofy’s tamed grasshopper.
Z  | Ant  | Antz | An individualistic but meek worker ant.
Zorak | Mantis  | Space Ghost/Space Ghost Coast to Coast |

## Video games

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Buck Bumble | Bee  | Buck Bumble (N64)  |
Contessa  | Black widow spider | Sly 2: Band of Thieves | While the majority of her is a black widow spider, she has the upper body of a human and the pincers of a scorpion as well.
Charmy | Bee  | Sonic the Hedgehog | Charmy Bee (チャーミー・ビー, Chāmī hachi) is a bee who is the "scatter-brained funny-kid" of the Chaotix.[11] He is cheerful, curious, playful, careless, and greatly energetic, often talking about things no one else cares about.[12] Charmy's fooling around makes the rest of the detective agency staff look professional, and he is generally seen as a "cute mascot".[13] Despite an innocent,[12] good-natured and light-hearted personality, he uses his stinging tail on rare occasions that he gets angry.[12][13] In addition being a playable character in Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, he made cameos in both Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games installments as a referee.
King Zing[14] | Bee  | Donkey Kong Country | King Zing (キングＢ, Kingu Bī) is the giant king of the Zingers, fought in the Krazy Kremland level in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest as the game's third boss, and the same level in Donkey Kong Land 2 as the fifth boss.
Moskito  | Mosquito | Rayman | Moskito is a giant mosquito, fought in the Moskito's Nest level, the last of the Dream Forest's levels, in Rayman as the game's first boss.[15]
Murfy  | Greenbottle | Rayman | Murfy is a greenbottle who appeared for the first time in the video game Rayman 2: The Great Escape, where he is nicknamed the "flying encyclopaedia". He has a hasty nature and he appears bored with his job.
Queen B.[16] | Bee  | Donkey Kong Country | Queen B. is the giant queen of the Zingers, fought in the Bumble B Rumble level in Donkey Kong Country as the game's third boss.
Queen Bee  | Bee  | Mario | Queen Bee is the queen of the Honeyhive Galaxy and the Honeyhop Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. She is an extremely large Bee who is the rightful ruler of the Worker Bees. She also appeared in Mario Kart 7 as an unlockable racer, being one of the heaviest characters in the game.
Roger Samms  | Cockroach  | Bad Mojo | An entomologist with his soul and mind transferred into the body of cockroach and is forced to travel through the dangerous dilapidated bar he lives in.
Zapper  | Cricket  | Zapper: One Wicked Cricket | A pretty mean and manipulative cricket, who uses his little grub brother as a TV aerial.

## Other

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* Bee – a bee in Suzy's Zoo
* Buzz Bee – a bee mascot from Honey Nut Cheerios cereal
* Bee – a mythical creature
* Buzz – a bee mascot for the Georgia Institute of Technology
* Flooty – a butterfly in Suzy's Zoo
* Emmet – a heraldic beast
* Loopy – a bee mascot from Honey Loops cereal
* Mundi - a ladybug from Doki
* Jollibee – a red bee who is the mascot of the fast-food company of the same name.
* Tickle – a ladybug in Suzy's Zoo
* Zoom Zoom – a grasshopper in Suzy's Zoo
* Endermite – a silverfish-related arthropod from Minecraft

## See also

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* List of fictional invertebrates
* List of films featuring insects

## References

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1. ^ "Willy Linthout".
2. ^ Davis, Jim. 20 Years & Still Kicking!: Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998, p. 14.
3. ^ "Massimo Mattioli".
4. ^ "GoT".
5. ^ Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 31. ISBN 978-0-313-33441-2.[1]
6. ^ See for instance Ashanti linguist staff finial in the Metropolitan Museum of Art which relates to the saying "No one goes to the house of the spider Ananse to teach him wisdom."
7. ^ Cynthia James (2004). "Searching for Ananse: From Orature to Literature in the West Indian Children's Folk Tradition--Jamaican and Trinidadian Trends". Trinidad University of the West Indies. Archived from the original (Word Document) on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2008-12-16. `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)
8. ^ "Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants". nick.com. Nickelodeon. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
9. ^ Brown, Arthur (2008). Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Cartoons!. USA: Arthur Brown. p. 85\. ISBN 978-1435732483.
10. ^ "Tatsunoko Pro". Tatsunoko Productions. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
11. ^ Sega (2003). "Team Chaotix". Sonic Heroes Manual. Sega. "pp 12"
12. ^ a b c "Sonic Channel". Characters: Charmy. Sega. Archived from the original on 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
13. ^ a b Sega (2003). "Team Chaotix". Sonic Heroes Manual. Sega. "pp 13"
14. ^ "Super Mario Wiki page for King Zing". Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Nintendo. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
15. ^ Ubi Soft staff, ed. (1995). Rayman Atari Jaguar instruction manual. Ubi Soft. pp. 23–24\. C3669T.23-24&rft.pub=Ubi+Soft&rft.date=1995&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+fictional+arthropods" class="Z3988">
16. ^ "Super Mario Wiki page for Queen B." Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo. Retrieved April 2, 2015.

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