Constant Bar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constant Bar

French entomologist

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1817

Place of Birth: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: zoologist, lepidopterist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Constant Bar (14 October 1817, Nantes – June 1884, Paramaribo) was a French entomologist. Constant Bar lived in French Guiana at L'île Portal in the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni 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.
Annales de la Societé entomologique de France, Paris, (5) 8 (1): 5–30.
(1878).
In 1854 he became a Member of the Société entomologique de France. He is honoured in the names Hypercompe bari, Heliconia bari and Parides lysander bari.