Constant Bar (14 October 1817, Nantes – June 1884,

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) was a French entomologist. Constant Bar lived in

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at L'île Portal in the commune of

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and with his three brothers made extensive entomological explorations of that region, collecting specimens for his own studies and for Charles Oberthür and others. He wrote "Note critique sur les différent systèmes de classification des lépidoptères rhopalocères établis depuis l'époque de Latreille et essai d'une nouvelle classification jusqu'aux genres exclusivement" for the ''Annales de la Societé entomologique de France'' in 1878. In 1854 he became a member of the

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. He is honoured in the names ''

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'', '' Heliconia bari'' and '' Parides lysander bari''.

References

*Dimmock, G. 1885: iography''Psyche'', Cambridge/Mass. 4:266 *Honrath, E. G. 1887: ar, C.''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'', Berlin 31:151–152 *Honrath, E. G. 1888: ar, C.''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'', Berlin 32:13–14 *Lefèvre, E. 1884: ar, C.''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (6), Paris 4:CLVII *Oberthür, C. 1886: ar, C.''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (6), Paris 6 Suppl. 1–12. *Oberthür, C. 1916: ar, C.''Etudes de lepidopterologie comparée'' 9 (with portrait) French lepidopterists 1884 deaths 1817 births Scientists from Nantes 19th-century French zoologists People from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Date of death missing {{entomologist-stub