Ross Harold Arnett Jr. (April 13, 1919 – July 16, 1999)[1] was an American entomologist noted for his studies of beetles, and as founder of the Coleopterist's Bulletin.
Born in Medina, New York, he was a star student at Cornell University, where he became interested in beetles and started on a revision of the Nearctic Silphidae.
In July 1948, the newly minted Dr. Arnett moved to Arlington, Virginia and went to work for the USDA as a beetle taxonomist.
He returned to academia in 1954 however, as head of the biology department of Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, then to The Catholic University of America in 1958, where he published his best-known work Beetles of the United States (1963).
[1] In 1979 he resigned his position to write full-time, publishing several books, then in 1982 founding Flora and Fauna Publications in Gainesville, Florida.