Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen (May 20, 1857, Haardt – March 17, 1919, Metternich) was a German teacher, artist, and amateur entomologist who studied gall forming insects, especially the gall midges (Cecidomyiidae), and worked on pest control in grapes, most importantly on Phylloxera. Rübsaamen was a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle from 1917. He began to suffer from various illnesses of the heart and lung and died at the age of 61. * Drawings by Rübsaamen * Bathypolypus valdiviae * Austrorossia mastigophora * Benthoctopus levis * Cirrothauma murrayi * Velodona togata