Charles Lee Remington

Charles Lee Remington (January 19, 1922 – May 31, 2007) was an American entomologist known for studies of butterflies and moths, a Yale University professor, and is considered the father of modern lepidoptery.

During his military service in World War II, he served as a medical entomologist, throughout the Pacific, researching insect-borne diseases and centipede bites in the Philippines.

In 1956 he started a correspondence with amateur lepidopterist and high school student Ward Watt, who went on to study at Yale and eventually receive his PhD with Remington.

In the 1960s he proposed that there were geographic regions which he called suture zones where species tended to hybridize with close relatives.

He served on the board of advisors of the Carrying Capacity Network, an organization that supports immigration reduction.