Vactor Tousey Chambers

Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V.T. Chambers) (6 August 1830, Burlington, Kentucky – 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, specifically, tineina. He, along with James Brackenridge Clemens, was a pioneer in the study of these insects. He described many new species.[1]

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 (Sep–Oct 1883). "Vactor Tousey Chambers". Psyche 4 (113-114): 94. doi:10.1155/1883/71986.


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