List of edible insects by country

• Honeypot ant
• Witchetty grub

Wasp species eaten in Yunnan, China:[1]

• Vespa velutinia auraria
• Vespa tropica ducalis
• Vespa analis nigrans
• Vespa variabilis
• Vespa sorror
• Vespa basalis
• Vespa magnifica
• Vespa mandarinia mandarinia
• Vespa bicolor bicolor
• Provespa barthelemyi
• Polistes sagittarius

Other insects consumed in China:

• Tenebrio molitor (mealworm)
• Omphisa fuscidentalis (bamboo borer)
• Bombyx mori (silkworm pupa)

• Darthula hardwickii[2]
• Udonga montana[3]

Insect species eaten in Indonesia:[1]

• Hyblaea puera (teak caterpillar; known as enthung jati in Javanese)
• Brachytrupes portentosus
• Valanga nigricornis
• Patanga succincta
• Pantala flavescens
• Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (red palm weevil)
• Chalcosoma atlas
• Xylocopa latipes

Insect species eaten in Vientiane Province, Laos:[1]

• Omphisa fuscidentalis
• Orientopsaltria sp.
• Brachytrupes portentosus
• Teleogryllus testaceus
• Acheta domesticus
• Helicopris bucephalus
• Lethocerus indicus
• Caelifera sp.
• Apis spp.
• Xylotrupes gideon
• Gryllotalpa africana
• Bombyx mori
• Tessaratoma quadrata
• Hierodura sp. ?
• Vespa spp.
• Hydrophilus affinis
• Oecophylla smaragdina

Insects eaten in Sabah:[1]

• Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
• Apis dorsata
• Apis cerana
• Ropalidia spp.
• Leptocorisa oratoria (rice ear bug)
• Nezara viridula (green stinkbug)
• Erionata thrax (banana leaf-roller pupa)
• Orientopsaltria spp. (brown and green cicadas)
• Dundubia spp. (light green cicadas)
• Oecophylla smaragdina
• Camponotus gigas (giant forest ant)
• Haaniella grayi grayi (stick insect eggs)

and in Sarawak:

• Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (sago worm)

Mexico insects:

• Atta mexicana (ant)
• Comadia redtenbacheri (mezcal worm)
• Aegiale hesperiaris (maguey worm)
• Sphenarium spp. (chapulines)
• Liometopum apiculatum larvae (escamol)
• Several Choleoptera larvae (chahuis)
• Dactylopius coccus females used as red food dye

• Agrianome fairmairei (Montrouzier, 1861) (Vers de Bancoule)

Insect species eaten in the Philippines:[1]

• Apis dorsata
• Apis cerana
• Trigona biroi
• Gryllotalpa sp.
• Leucopolis irrorata (June beetle larvae)
• Locusta migratoria manilensis
• Camponotus spp.
• Palembus dermestoides

• Gonimbrasia belina (mopane worm)
• Encosternum delegorguei (inflated stinkbug)

Some of the most commonly consumed insects in Thailand are:[1]

• Acheta domestica (house cricket)
• Gryllus bimaculatus (Mediterranean field cricket)
• Brachytrupes portentosus (short-tailed cricket)
• Omphisa fuscidentalis (bamboo borer)
• Bombyx mori (silkworm pupa)
• Oecophylla smaragdina (weaver ant)
• Lethocerus indicus (giant water bug)

Heterometrus longimanus (Asian forest scorpion) is also consumed.

Below is a more comprehensive list of the insect species that are consumed in Thailand.[1]

Coleoptera

• Aeolesthus sp.
• Agrianome fairmairei (Montrouzier, 1861
• Apriona germai
• Aristobia approximator
• Dorysthenes buqueti
• Plocaederus obesus
• Plocaederus ruficornis
• Arrhines hiruts
• Arrhines 2 spp.
• Astycus gestvoi
• Cnaphoscapus decoratus
• Episomus sp.
• Hypomesus squamosus
• Pollendera atomaria
• Sepiomus aurivilliusi
• Tanymeces sp.
• Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
• Hydrobiomorpha spinicollis
• Hydrophilus bilineatus
• Sternolophus rufipes
• Erectes stiticus
• Cybister tripunctatus asiaticus
• Cybister limbatus
• Cybister rugosus
• Hydaticus rhantoides
• Laccophilus pulicarius
• Copelatus sp.
• Rhantaticus congestus
• Xylotrupes gideon
• Oryctes rhinoceros
• Adoretus spp.
• Agestrata orichalca
• Anomala anguliceps
• Anomala antique
• Anomala chalcites
• Anomala cupripes
• Anomala pallida
• Apogonia sp.
• Chaetadoretus cribratus
• Holotrichia 2 spp.
• Maladera sp.
• Pachnessa sp.
• Protaetia sp.
• Sophrops absceussus
• S. bituberculatus
• S. rotundicollis
• Sophrops 2 spp.
• Aphodius crenatus
• Aphodius marginellus
• Aphodius putearius
• Aphodius sp.
• Cathasius birmanicus
• Cathasius molossus
• Copris carinicus
• Copris nevinsoni
• Paracopris punctulatus
• Microcopris reflexus
• Paracopris sp.
• Gymnopleurus melanarius
• Heliocopris bucephalus
• Heteronychus lioderes
• Liatongus rhadamitus
• Onitis niger
• Onitis subopagus
• Onthophagus orientalis
• Onthophagus avocetta
• Onthophagus bonasus
• Onthophagus khonmiinitnoi
• Onthophagus papulatus
• Onthophagus sagittarius
• Onthophagus seniculus
• Onthophagus ragoides
• Onthophagus tragus
• Onthophagus tricornis
• Onthophagus trituber
• Onthophagus sp.
• Sternocera aequisignata
• Sternocera ruficornis

Hemiptera

• Diplonychus sp.
• Lethocerus indicus
• Anoplocnemis phasiana
• Homoeocerus sp.
• Cylindrostethus scrutator
• Laccotrephes rubber
• Ranatra longipes thai
• Ranatra varripes
• Anisops barbutus
• Anisops bouvieri
• Pygopalty sp.
• Tessaratoma papillosa
• Tessaratoma javanica

Odonata

• Aeshna sp.
• Ceriagrion sp.
• Epophtalmia vittigera bellicose
• Rhyothemis sp.

Hymenoptera

• Apis dorsata
• Apis florea
• Oecophylla smaragdina
• Carebara castanea
• Vespa affinis indosinensis

Orthoptera

• Acrida cinerea
• Acrida sp.
• Chondacris rosea
• Chortippus sp.
• Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
• Ducetia japonica
• Locusta migratoria
• Mecopoda elongate
• Oxya sp.
• Parapleurus sp.
• Patanga japonica
• Patanga succincta
• Shirakiacris shirakii
• Trilophidia annulata
• Atractomorpha sp.
• Ratanga avis
• Teleogryllus testaceus
• Teleogryllus mitratrus
• Teleogryllus sp.
• Modicogryllus confirmatus
• Brachytrupes portentosus
• Gryllus bimaculatus
• Gryllus sp.
• Gymnogryllus 2 spp.
• Pteronemobius sp.
• Velarifictorus sp.
• Gryllotalpa africana microphtalma
• Tenodera ariddifolia sinensis
• Mantis religiosa
• Euparatettix sp.
• Euconocephalus incertus
• Conocephalus maculates
• Conocephalus sp.
• Onomachus sp.
• Pseudophyllus titan
• Homeoxipha sp.

Isoptera

• Macrotermes gilvus

Lepidoptera

• Bombyx mori
• Erionata thrax thrax
• Omphisa fuscidentalis

Homoptera

• Chremistica sp.
• Dundubia sp.
• Orientopsaltria sp.
• Platylomia sp.