1972

• Whitehead, D.R. 1972: Classification, phylogeny, and zoogeography of Schizogenius Putzeys (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritini). Quaestiones entomologicae 8(3): 131-348. PDF Reference page. 

1974

• Kingsolver, J.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1974. Biosystematics of Central American species of Ctenocolum, a new genus of seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87(27): 283–312. BHL.
• Kingsolver, J.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1974. Classification and comparative biology of the seed beetle genus Caryedes Hummel (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 100(4): 341–436. JSTOR .

1980

• Hoebeke, E.R.; Whitehead, D.R. 1980: New records of Rhinoncus bruchoides (Herbst) for the Western Hemisphere and a revised key to the North American species of the genus Rhinoncus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 82(4): 556–561. BHL

1982

• Whitehead, D. R.; Shelley, R.M. (1992). Mimicry among aposematic Appalachian xystodesmid millipeds (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 94(2): 177-188

2012

• Prena, J.; Whitehead, D.R. 2012: A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical weevil genus Cleogonus Schönherr (Curculionidae, Molytinae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 59(1): 55–79. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.201200004 (Posthumously published)

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 4 eponyms of Donald Robert Whitehead
• Clivina (Leucocara) Bousquet, 2009
• Whiteheadiana Perrault, 1994
• Whiteheadia Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999
• Geoballus caputalbus, Crabill, 1969
• Ornidia whiteheadi Thompson, 1991