John Burns (entomologist) explained

John Burns is an entomologist, curator of Lepidoptera and professor at Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution.

Academic background

Burns has completed his BS at Johns Hopkins University & MS, PhD at University of California, Berkeley.

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

References

• http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/BurnsJ.htm