Charles Golding Barrett
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Charles Golding Barrett was an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

. He wrote The Lepidoptera of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their preparatory states, habits, and localities. London : L. Reeve, 1893-1907.

Golding Barrett was responsible for the naming of 2 new genera
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

of moths.
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