John Burns

John McLauren Burns is an entomologist, was a curator of Lepidoptera in the Entomology Department at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Academic background Burns has completed his BS at Johns Hopkins University (1954) & MS, PhD at University of California, Berkeley (1957, 1961).

Fields of study Burns is an expert in Lepidoptera (skipper butterflies), evolutionary biology and poetry. He has discovered a new species of skipper butterflies and named it as Pseudodrephalys sohni found at Brazil.

Publications Some of his notable publications are as follows:

DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera 2006 Pan-neotropical genus Venada (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) is not monotypic: Four new species occur on one volcano in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste 2005 What's in a name? Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Telemiades Hubner 1819: new combinations Telemiades corbulo (Stoll) and Telemiades oiclus (Mabille) 2005 Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding 2005 Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator 2004 Pseydodrephalys: A New Genus Comprising Three Showy, Neotropical Species 1998