Burns, John
AffiliatedSystematics and evolutionary biology of butterflies (chiefly skippers, Hesperiidae) at and around the species level, with special attention to genitalia, foodplants, and DNA barcodes; biological poetry.
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- Janzen, Daniel, Baker, Austin, McCluskey, Kathryn, Smith, Alex, Naik, Suresh, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Sones, Jayme, D'Souza, Michelle, St Jacques, Brianne, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Whitfield, Jim, Arias, Diana, Solis, Alma, Metz, Mark, Burns, John M., Zuniga, Ronald, Phillips-Rodriguez, Eugenie, Espinoza, Bernardo, Chacon, Isidro, Hebert, Paul, Hallwachs, Winnie, and Sharkey, Michael J. 2023. "Minimalist revision of Mesochorus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 158 new species and host records for 129 species." Revista de biologia tropical, 71, (S2). https://doi.org/10.15517/rev.biol.trop..v71iS2.56316. 2023
- D'Ercole, Jacopo, Dincă, Vlad, Opler, Paul A., Kondla, Norbert, Schmidt, Christian, Phillips, Jarrett D., Robbins, Robert, Burns, John M., Miller, Scott E., Grishin, Nick, Zakharov, Evgeny V., deWaard, Jeremy R., Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, and Hebert, Paul D. N. 2021. "A DNA barcode library for the butterflies of North America." PeerJ, 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11157. 2021
- Sharkey, Michael J., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Chapman, Eric G., Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Brown, Allison, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Naik, Suresh, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Milton, Megan, Hebert, Paul, Shaw, Scott R., Kittel, Rebecca N., Solis, M. Alma, Metz, Mark A., Goldstein, Paul Z., Brown, John W., Quicke, Donald L. J., Van Achterberg, C., Brown, Brian, V., and Burns, John M. 2021. "Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species." Zookeys, (1013) 1–665. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600. 2021
- Monotypy justified: Genitalia and DNA move Ephyriades eugramma (Mabille) to new genus Neomorphuncus Burns (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 121:557-567. 2019
- Integrative data helps the assessment of a butterfly within the Udranomia kikkawai species complex (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): Immature stages, natural history, and molecular evidence. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 266:169-176. 2017
- Nuclear genomes distinguish cryptic species suggested by their DNA barcodes and ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114:8313-8318. 2017
- Varying and unchanging whiteness on the wings of dusk-active and shade-inhabiting Carystoides escalantei butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114:7379-7384. 2017
- Speciation in an Insular Sand Dune Habitat: Atrytonopsis (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae)—Mainly from the Southwestern United States and Mexico—Off the North Carolina Coast. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 69:275-292. 2015
- A Cryptic New Jemadia (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrrhopygini) from Costa Rica and Panama with a Subtly Distinctive Combination of Blue Rays and White Bands. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 68:232-247. 2014
- Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli (family Hesperiidae) comprises three morphologically cryptic species. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14:153-153. 2014
- Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Rodriguez, Josephine J., Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie D., Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Burns, John M., Solis, M. Alma, Brown, John W., Cardinal, Sophie, Goulet, Henri, and Hebert, Paul D. N. 2014. "Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica." ZooKeys, 383, (Special issue) 1–565. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418. 2014
- Oxynetra: Facies and DNA barcodes point to a new species from Costa Rica (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrrhopygini). Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 67:1-14. 2013
- DNA Barcodes Reveal Yet Another New Species of Venada (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Northwestern Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 115:37-47. 2013
- Reading the Complex Skipper Butterfly Fauna of One Tropical Place. Plos One. 6:1-15. 2011
- A tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107:11659-11665. 2010
- Genitalia, DNA barcodes, larval facies, and foodplants place the mimetic species Neoxeniades molion in Rhinthon (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae).. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 64:69-78. 2010
- Genitalia, DNA barcodes, larval facies, and foodplants place the mimetic species Neoxeniades molion in Rhinthon (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 64:69-78. 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. 112:32-42. 2010
- Genitalia, DNA barcodes, and life histories synonymize Telles with Thracides--a genus in which Telles arcalaus looks out of place (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 63:141-153. 2009
- Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie D., Blandin, Patrick, Burns, John M., Cadiou, Jean-Marie, Chacon, Isidro, Dapkey, Tanya, Deans, Andrew R., Epstein, Marc E., Espinoza, B., Franclemont, J., Haber, W., Hajibabaei, M., Hallwachs, J., Hebert, Paul D. N., Gauld, I. D., Harvey, D., Hausmann, A., Kitching, Ian, Lafontaine, D., Landry, J. F., Lemaire, C., Miller, Jacqueline Y., Miller, James S., Miller, Lee et al. 2009. "Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity." Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, (S1) 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02628.x. 2009
- DNA barcodes and cryptic species of skipper butterflies in the genus Perichares in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:6350-6355. 2008
- Patterns of genetic variation between the checkered skippers Pyrgus communis and Pyrgus albescens (Lepidoptera : hesperiidae). Annals of Entomological Society of America. 101:794-800. 2008
- DNA barcodes of closely related (but morphologically and ecologically distinct) species of skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) can differ by only one to three nucleotides. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society. 61:138-153. 2007
- Evolutionary Differentiation: Differentiating Gold-Banded Skippers--Autochton cellus and More (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-38.
- Wallengrenia otho and W. egeremet in Eastern North America (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-39.
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