Vactor Tousey Chambers Explained

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.[1]

Works

January 1870 – paper on Tropaea luna

June 1871 – "A new species of Cemiostoma"

January 1870 – "The classification of the Tineidae"

Notes and References

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