Charles Lee Remington

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.