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 15,926 at the 2010 census. History Burlington was incorporated in 1824. Burlington marks the county seat of Boo ...

– 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

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 ''Leucoptera '' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae. Its members are leaf borers many of which can cause severe damage to plant crops, such as coffee or apples. Selected species *'' Leucoptera aceris'' (Fuchs, 1903) *'' Leucoptera acr ...

" :January 1870 – "The classification of the Tineidae"

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