John M. Burns

John M. Burns Entomologist, USA

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 127, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Burns, J.M., 1960. A new species of oak-eating Erynnis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) restricted to the southern Cordillera of the United States. Wasmann J. Biol. 18(1): 147-160, figs 1-7. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. 1964. Evolution in Skipper Butterflies of the Genus Erynnis. University of California Publications in Entomology, Vol.37, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Cal., 1964pp. iv + 214, 22 figs., 1 pl. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. 1984. Evolutionary differentiation: differentiating gold-banded skippers - Autochton cellus and more (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 405: i–iii, 1–38. Reference page.

Burns, J.M., 1992. Genitalic Characterization, Enlargement and Reassociation of the Neotropical Hesperiine Genus Halotus (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 46(3); 182-194. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. 1994. Split skippers: Mexican genus Poanopsis goes in the origenes group—and Yvretta forms the rhesus group—of Polites (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48(1): 24–45. PDF. Reference page.
Burns, J.M. 1994. Genitalia at the generic level: Atrytone restricted, Anatrytone resurrected, new genus Quasimellana -and yes! We have no Mellanas (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48(4): 273–337. Reference page. .

Burns, 1996. Genitalia and the proper genus: Codatractus gets mysie and uvydixa – in a compact cyda group–as well as a hysterectomy, while Cephise gets part of Polythrix (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 50: 173–216. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. (1999) ['1998']. Pseudodrephalys: a new genus comprising three showy, neotropical species (one new) removed from - and quite remote from - Drephalys (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). J. Lepid. Soc. 52: 364-380. PDF. Reference page.
Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 1999. Drephalys: Division of this showy neotropical genus, plus a new species and the immatures and food plants of two species from Costa Rican dry forest (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 53(3): 77-89. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 2001. Biodiversity of Pyrrhopygine Skipper Butterflies (Hesperiidae) in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55: 15–43, 28 figs. web. Reference page.

Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 2005. What's in a name? Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Telemiades Hübner 1819 [Pyrdalus Mabille 1903]: new combinations Telemiades corbulo (Stoll) and Telemiades oiclus (Mabille)—and more. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(4): 770–781. ResearchGate. Reference page.
Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 2005. Pan-Neotropical genus Venada (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) is not monotypic: Four new species occur on one volcano in the area de conservación guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 59 (1): 19-34. Reference page.

Burns, J.M., Janzen, D.H. & Hallwachs, W., 2010. Of many similar species in the neotropical genus Porphyrogenes (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), a new one, repeatedly reared in Costa Rica, is relatively distinct. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112 (1): 32-42. Reference page.

Burns, J.M., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W. & Hajibabaei M. 2013a. DDNA Barcodes Reveal Yet Another New Species of Venada (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Northwestern Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 115(1): 37–47. Reference page.

Bertrand, C., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Burns, J.M., Gibson, J.F., Shokralla, S. & Hajibabaei, M. 2014. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli (family Hesperiidae) comprises three morphologically cryptic species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:153. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-153 Reference page.