1960

• Burns, J.M., 1960. A new species of oak-eating Erynnis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) restricted to the southern Cordillera of the United States. Wasmann J. Biol. 18(1): 147-160, figs 1-7. Reference page. 

1964

• Burns, J.M. 1964. Evolution in Skipper Butterflies of the Genus Erynnis. University of California Publications in Entomology, Vol.37, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Cal., 1964pp. iv + 214, 22 figs., 1 pl. Reference page. 

1984

• Burns, J.M. 1984. Evolutionary differentiation: differentiating gold-banded skippers - Autochton cellus and more (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 405: i–iii, 1–38. Reference page. 

1992

• Burns, J.M., 1992. Genitalic Characterization, Enlargement and Reassociation of the Neotropical Hesperiine Genus Halotus (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 46(3); 182-194. Reference page. 

1994

• Burns, J.M. 1994. Split skippers: Mexican genus Poanopsis goes in the origenes group—and Yvretta forms the rhesus group—of Polites (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48(1): 24–45. PDF. Reference page. 
• Burns, J.M. 1994. Genitalia at the generic level: Atrytone restricted, Anatrytone resurrected, new genus Quasimellana -and yes! We have no Mellanas (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48(4): 273–337. Reference page. .

1999

• Burns, J.M. (1999) ['1998']. Pseudodrephalys: a new genus comprising three showy, neotropical species (one new) removed from - and quite remote from - Drephalys (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). J. Lepid. Soc. 52: 364-380. PDF. Reference page. 
• Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 1999. Drephalys: Division of this showy neotropical genus, plus a new species and the immatures and food plants of two species from Costa Rican dry forest (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 53(3): 77-89. Reference page. 

2001

• Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 2001. Biodiversity of Pyrrhopygine Skipper Butterflies (Hesperiidae) in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55: 15–43, 28 figs. web. Reference page. 

2005

• Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 2005. What's in a name? Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Telemiades Hübner 1819 [Pyrdalus Mabille 1903]: new combinations Telemiades corbulo (Stoll) and Telemiades oiclus (Mabille)—and more. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(4): 770–781. ResearchGate. Reference page. 
• Burns, J.M. & D.H. Janzen, 2005. Pan-Neotropical genus Venada (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) is not monotypic: Four new species occur on one volcano in the area de conservación guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 59 (1): 19-34. Reference page. 

2009

2010

• Burns, D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, 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 (1): 32-42. Reference page. 

2013

• Burns, J.M., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W. & Hajibabaei M. 2013a. DDNA Barcodes Reveal Yet Another New Species of Venada (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Northwestern Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 115(1): 37–47. Reference page. 

2014

• Bertrand, C., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Burns, J.M., Gibson, J.F., Shokralla, S. & Hajibabaei, M. 2014. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli (family Hesperiidae) comprises three morphologically cryptic species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:153. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-153 Reference page. 

2017

• Janzen, D.H., Burns, J.M., Cong. Q., Hallwachs, W., Dapkey, T., Manjunath, R., Hajibabaei M., Hebert, P.D.N. & Grishin, N.V. 2017. Nuclear genomes distinguish cryptic species suggestedby their DNA barcodes and ecology. PNAS 114(31): 8313–8318. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1621504114. PDF. SI Appendix. Reference page. 

2019

• Burns, J.M., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. 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(4): 557–567. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.121.4.557 Reference page. 

2021

• Sharkey, M.J., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Chapman, E.G., Smith, M.A., Dapkey, T., Brown, A., Ratnasingham, S., Naik, S., Manjunath, R., Perez, K., Miltom, M., Hebert, P., Shaw, S.R., Kittel, R.N., Solis, M.A., Metz, M.A., Goldstein, P.Z., Brown, J.W., Quicke, D.L.J., van Achterberg, C., Brown, B.V. & Burns, J.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. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600. . Reference page.