Herbert Ferlando Schwarz (7 September 1883 – 2 October 1960) was an American entomologist who specialised in

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

. He was appointed a research associate at the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...

in 1921, a position he held until his death, and was the editor of '' Natural History'' magazine from 1921 to 1925. Schwarz described numerous

stingless bee Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 550 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family A ...

(

Meliponini Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 550 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family A ...

) genera such as

Plebeia ''Plebeia'' is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus ''Trigona ''Trigona'' is one of the largest genera of stingless bees, comprising about 32 species, exclusively occurring in the New World, and forme ...

and Partamona.

Tributes

The bee genera Schwarziana and Schwarzula are named after him.

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American entomologists 1883 births 1960 deaths 20th-century American zoologists {{Entomologist-stub