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Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786–1853) 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 monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.Amongst Germar’s publications are:Species Cicadarium enumeratae et sub genera distributae. Thon’s Entomologisches Archiv. (2)2: 37-57 pl. 1 (1830).Observations sur plusieurs espèces du genre Cicada Latr. Rev. Entomol.