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Vactor Tousey Chambers

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Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V. T. Chambers) (6 August 1830, Burlington, Kentucky – 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American entomologist who specialized in Microlepidoptera. He along with James Brackenridge Clemens, was a pioneer in the study of these insects. He described many new species, with particularly many now placed in Gelechioidea.

Works

January 1870 – paper on Tropaea luna
June 1871 – "A new species of Cemiostoma"
January 1870 – "The classification of the Tineidae"

References

  1. Mann, B. Pickman (September–October 1883). "Vactor Tousey Chambers". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 4 (113–114): 94. doi:10.1155/1883/71986.


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