John Burns (entomologist)

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: