Ronald W. Hodges

Upon retirement in January 1997 he and his wife Elaine moved to Eugene, Oregon.

Hodges was granted the Thomas Say Award by the Entomological Society of America for his work on Moths of North America in 1990, and the Lepidopterists' Society's Karl Jordan Medal for his gelechioid research in 1997. He was elected an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Washington in 1999.

He introduced the MONA numbering scheme for North American moths in 1983 in the publication Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, which he edited. A MONA number is also referred to as a "Hodges number".

Chionodes hodgesorum was named in honor of Hodges and his wife, to coincide with his 80th birthday.

He was elected to the Washington Biologists' Field Club in 1963 and served as its president from 1976 to 1979. He was also president of the Lepidopterists' Society from 1975 to 1976; of the Maryland Entomological Society from 1973 to 1974; and of the American Association for Zoological Nomenclature from 1993 to 1995.

Hodges' papers from the period 1960 to 1997 are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

Ronald William Hodges (August 7, 1934 – December 10, 2017), known as Ron, was an American entomologist and lepidopterist.

Hodges was born on August 7, 1934, and was raised in Michigan. He was educated at Michigan State University, obtaining first a BSc then an MSc. He obtained a PhD from Cornell University in 1961.