# Constant Bar

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{{Short description|French entomologist (1817–1884)}}
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| name        = Constant Bar
| image       = ConstantBar.jpg
| alt         = Constant Bar
| caption     = Constant Bar
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| occupation  = French [entomologist](/source/entomologist)
| birth_date  = {{start date text|14 October 1817}}
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1884|06||1817|10|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nantes
| death_place = Paramaribo
}}

'''Constant Bar''' (14 October 1817, in [Nantes](/source/Nantes) – June 1884, in [Paramaribo](/source/Paramaribo)) was a French [entomologist](/source/entomologist).

Constant Bar lived in [French Guiana](/source/French_Guiana) at L'île Portal in the commune of [Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni](/source/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](/source/Charles_Oberth%C3%BCr_(entomologist)) 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 [Société entomologique de France](/source/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_entomologique_de_France).

He is honoured in the names ''[Hypercompe bari](/source/Hypercompe_bari)'', ''[Heliconia bari](/source/Heliconia_bari)'' and ''[Parides lysander bari](/source/Parides_lysander)''.

==References==
*Dimmock, G. 1885: [Biography] ''Psyche'', Cambridge/Mass. 4:266
*Honrath, E. G. 1887: [Bar, C.] ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'', Berlin 31:151–152
*Honrath, E. G. 1888: [Bar, C.] ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'', Berlin 32:13–14
*Lefèvre, E. 1884: [Bar, C.] ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (6), Paris 4:CLVII
*Oberthür, C. 1886: [Bar, C.] ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (6), Paris 6 Suppl. 1–12.
*Oberthür, C. 1916: [Bar, C.] ''Etudes de lepidopterologie comparée'' 9 (with portrait)

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Category:19th-century French zoologists
Category:People from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
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