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August Assmann (1819-1898) was a German entomologist who specialised in fossil insects of Lepidoptera and Hemiptera.
His collections are in the Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław.
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Philipp Christoph Zeller was a German entomologist.
Friedrich Hermann Loew was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States.
Ernst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He wrote monographs on several insect families including the Scutelleridae. He also took an interest in paleoentomology.
Prof Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold FRS(For) HFRSE was a German physiologist and zoologist. He was responsible for the introduction of the taxa Arthropoda and Rhizopoda, and for defining the taxon Protozoa specifically for single-celled organisms.
Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs was a German entomologist, specialising in Coleoptera and in particular the Gyrinidae. In this group he worked on the world fauna.
Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann, was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.
Adolpho Ducke, , was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer specializing in Amazonia. According to family records, he was an ethnic German with roots in Trieste Austro-Hungary. German was his first language; that is, the German commonly spoken in Trieste in the 19th century. Most of his books were written in German.
Hermann Friedrich Stannius was a German anatomist, physiologist and entomologist. He specialised in the insect order Diptera especially the family Dolichopodidae.
Theodor Emil Schummel was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Schummel was a private tutor in Breslau. He was a member of Schlesische Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur a largely scientific society which received royal ratification in 1809 after the draft of its constitution was sent to the government in Königsberg and published many of his shorter scientific papers on insects in the society's journal Übersicht der Arbeiten und Veränderungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur, abbreviated Übers Arb. Ver. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Kult.
Rhagio is a worldwide genus of predatory snipe flies. Several species in this genus are referred to as downlooker or down-looker flies because they sometimes perch on tree trunks in a head-down position. There are approximately 170 species. They can be distinguished from other rhagionids by the open anal cell on the wings and the lack of a kidney-shaped arista.
Terellia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Heinrich Hugo Karny was an Austrian physician and entomologist who specialised in Thysanoptera and Orthoptera.
Empis is a genus of dance fly found in the fly family Empididae.
Joseph August Schenk was an Austrian-born, German botanist and paleobotanist.
Heinrich Scholz was a German entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera and Diptera.
Nikolay Ilyich Baranov was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. His collection of Palearctic Tachinidae is held by the Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. Baranov described many new species. He worked as an entomologist at the Institute of Hygiene in Zagreb.
Xylophagus is a genus of flies in the family Xylophagidae.
Rudolf Emil Mell was a German zoologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera especially Sphingidae and the fauna of China. He was the director of the German-Chinese Middle School at Canton (Guangzhou) for some time. His collection of Sphingidae is held by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. It was purchased by Benjamin Preston Clark.
Oedalea is a genus of flies in the family Hybotidae.
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