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