Barr, W. F. 1941b. Distributional notes and new records of Acmaeodera (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 17(2):62-69. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1943. A new species of Acmaeodera from southern California (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 17(3):113-114.
Barr, W. F. 1948. A new genus and species of Buprestidae from Southern California (Coleoptera). Entomological News 59(3):69-72. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1949. A revision of the species of the genus Polycesta occurring in the United States (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). American Museum Novitates 1432:1-42. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1969a. New species of Chrysobothris from the Pacific Northwest (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 71(2):117-132. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1969b. The Buprestidae and Cleridae of the Nevada Test Site (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist 29(1):11-19. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1969c. New species of Hippomelas and Acmaeodera from Western North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 42(3):321-335. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1970. The subgenera of Nanularia and Hippomelas (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Occasional Papers, Biological Society of Nevada 25:1-9. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1971. Family Buprestidae. In: M. H. Hatch. Beetles of the Pacific Northwest, Part V, pp. 55-89, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1972a. New species of North American Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Arquivos do Museo Boçage 2.a Série, 3(7):145-202. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1972b. New species of Ancylotela from Mexico and the United States with a key to the known species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 45:92-110. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1972c. New synonymy and a change of name in North American Buprestis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 74(3):343. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1974. New genera and species of North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers, Biological Society of Nevada 39:1-13. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1975. Taxonomic notes and new synonymies of some North American Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 48(3):411-421. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1988. An overview of the Mexican Buprestidae with a listing of Chrysobothris species (Coleoptera). Secretaria de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos, Memoria de los Simposia
Nacionales de Parastiologia Forestal ii y iii, Pubicación Especial No. 46, pp. 69-75. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. 1992. New species of Mexican Acmaeodera with lectotype designations and synonymical notes (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Melanderia 48:69-83. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. & E. G. Linsley. 1947. Distributional and biological notes on the species of the subgenus Melanophila occurring in Western North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 23(4):162-166. (PDF)
Barr, W. F. & R. L. Westcott. 1976. Taxonomic, biological and distributional notes of North American Chrysobothris, with the description of a new species from California (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 52(2):138-152. (PDF)
Homan, H. W. & W. F. Barr. 1981. The Pacific flatheaded borer. University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station Current Information Series 567.
Horning, D. S. & W. F. Barr. 1970. Insects of Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Series 8:1-118.
Nelson, G. H. & W. F. Barr. 1960. New synonymy in the Buprestidae (Coleoptera). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 36(4):178.
Nelson, G. H. & W. F. Barr. 1993. Case 2758. Buprestis Linnaeus, 1758 and Chrysobothris Eschscholtz, 1829 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by the designation of Buprestis octoguttata
Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species of Buprestis. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50(1):3-26.
Stafford, M. P., W. F. Barr & J. B. Johnson. 1986. Coleoptera of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory: an annotated checklist. Great Basin Naturalist 46(2):287-293.
Westcott, R. L. & W. F. Barr. 1998. A new species of Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Big Bend Natonal Park, Texas, with synonymy for other species occurring in the United States.
Insecta Mundi 12(1&2):53-57. (PDF)
Westcott, R. L. & W. F. Barr. 2007. Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz and new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from
North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zootaxa 1481:49-58.
Westcott, R. L., W. F. Barr, G. H. Nelson & D. S. Verity. 1979. Distributional and biological notes on North and Central American species of Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).
The Coleopterists Bulletin 33(2):169-181. (PDF)