Emily L. Morton (April 3, 1841 – January 8, 1920) was an American entomologist and scientific illustrator.

[2] In 1893, Morton began working with entomologist Harrison G. Dyar after they both placed ads requesting exchanges of moths, including limacodids, in Entomological News.

[1] She also supplied a researcher Alpheus Spring Packard, PhD, with rare specimens of insects injurious to forest and shade trees, such as Janassa lignicolor, Hyparpax aurora and others.

[3] Morton sold eight specimens of her extensive collection of Lepidoptera in which she had hybridized several forms, to an English collector.

[2] She is not known to have published her research results,[2] however Morton became a co-author at onset of "The Life-Histories of the New York Slug Caterpillars" series.