Bibliography of butterflies

Burns, John McLauren, and Daniel H. Janzen

2000. 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, 32 figs., 4 tabs. (16 June) [D. kidonoi; new subgenus: Paradrephalys]

2001. Biodiversity of pyrrhopygine skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 15-43, 28 figs., 2 tabs. (21 December) [general; host plants; parasitoids; ecology; taxonomy]

2005a. 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, 33 figs., 1 tab. (8 April) [V. nevada, V. davena, V. cacao, V. naranja; life histories; host plants; parasitoids]

2005b. 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. Poceedings of the entomological Society of Washington 107(4): 770-781, 26 figs (3 October) [Costa Rica]

Burns, John McLauren, Daniel H. Janzen, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Winifred Hallwachs and Paul D. N. Hebert

2007. 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(3): 138-153, 46 figs., 3 tabs. (24 October) [new species: Neoxeniades pluviasilva; host plants; Costa Rica]