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Charles Lee Remington

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American entomologist (1922-2007)

United StatesLived 1922 to 2007 · aged 85
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Charles Lee Remington was an American entomologist known for studies of butterflies and moths, a Yale University professor, and is considered the father of modern lepidoptery. He established a Periodical Cicada preserve in Hamden, Connecticut. He developed the insect collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

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1958Guggenheim Fellowship

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Charles Lee Remington was an American entomologist known for studies of butterflies and moths, a Yale University professor, and is considered the father of modern lepidoptery. He established a Periodical Cicada preserve in Hamden, Connecticut. He developed the insect collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Among species named in his honor are Agathymus remingtoni and Metajapyx remingtoni, a forcepstail.

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Lived 1922 to 2007 · aged 85
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