Caloptilia Rhoifoliella
''Caloptilia rhoifoliella'' (sumac leafblotch miner) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Bermuda, Canada (including Manitoba, Québec and Ontario), and the United States (including Mississippi, New York, Kentucky, California, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Texas, Vermont, North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas and Louisiana). The wingspan is about 13 mm. Adults are on wing in September, November, March and April in Florida and in May in Texas. The larvae feed on ''Rhus'' species (including ''Rhus copallina'', ''Rhus lanceolata'', ''Rhus toxicodendron'' and ''Rhus typhina''), ''Schinus terebinthifolia'', ''Toxicodendron pubescens'' and ''Toxicodendron radicans''. They leaf miner, mine the leaves of their host plant. References External linksCaloptilia at microleps.org
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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 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 ''Actias luna, Tropaea luna'' :June 1871 – "A new species of Cemiostoma" :January 1870 – "The classification of the Tineidae" References

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