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In 1941 the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas creates the Instituto Español de Entomología (IEE), a center which absorbs the section of Entomology of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), its collections, library, the greater part of its staff and its activity. The present work is dedicated to the task of the IEE in the promotion and dissemination of the entomological fauna through exhibitions, conferences and courses, publications and shipments of entomological collections to centers of education, among other activities of a museum, as well as to describe the difficulties that those responsible for the IEE found for the development of these functions, and the public response. In 1985 the IEE disappears as an independent institution to be integrated back into the MNCN.

[EN] The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the evolution of research on arthropods conducted by Iberian authors in the last 30 years. For this, we studied the communications presented at 15 Iberian Congresses of Entomology held so far. In addition to the basic description of the contents of these meetings, we posed a number of questions and compare observations with what happens in other groups of researchers. Those questions were: 1 What have been the most attractive areas of study for Iberian entomologists? 2 Which institutions have conducted entomological studies and what has the contri- bution of these centres been? 3 Is there cooperation between authors? and between institutions? To what extent has there been collaboration? [ES] Se describe y analiza el devenir de las investigaciones sobre artrópodos por autores ibéricos en los últimos 30 años a través de las comunicaciones presentadas en los primeros 15 Congresos Ibéricos de Entomología habidos hasta el momento. Además de realizar la descripción básica de cada una de estas reuniones y comparar con lo que sucede en otros colectivos de investigadores, se plantean una serie de cuestiones a las que se pretende dar respuesta: 1 ¿Cuáles han sido las áreas de estudio más atrayentes para los entomólogos ibéricos? 2 ¿Desde qué instituciones se realizan estudios entomológicos y cuál ha sido la aportación de estos centros? 3 ¿Existe cooperación entre autores? y ¿entre centros? ¿en qué medida?, Este trabajo ha sido subvencionado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad , Proyecto HAR 2011-28621