Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V. T. Chambers) (6 August 1830,

Burlington, Kentucky Burlington is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 17,318 at the 2020 census. History Burlington was incorporated in 1824. However, today Burlington is unincorpora ...

– 7 August 1883, in

Covington, Kentucky Covington is a list of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio River, Ohio and Licking River (Kentucky), Licking rivers, across from Cincinnati to the north ...

) was an American

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

who specialized in

Microlepidoptera Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the "smaller moths" ( micro, Lepidoptera). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, so are harder to iden ...

. He along with

James Brackenridge Clemens James Brackenridge Clemens (31 January 1825, in Wheeling, West Virginia, Wheeling, Virginia – 11 January 1867, in Easton, Pennsylvania) was an American entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera. He described many new species. His collection of ...

, was a pioneer in the study of these insects. He described many new species, with particularly many now placed in

Gelechioidea __NOTOC__ Gelechioidea (from the type genus ''Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the Taxonomic rank, superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. ...

Works

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

Tineidae Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...

References

American lepidopterists 1830 births 1883 deaths People from Burlington, Kentucky People from Covington, Kentucky 19th-century American zoologists {{US-entomologist-stub