| La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest LA McDade University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 656 | 1994 |
| Ecological inferences from morphological data HA Hespenheide Annual review of ecology and systematics, 213-229, 1973 | 415 | 1973 |
| Prey characteristics and predator niche width HA Hespenheide Ecology and evolution of communities, 1975 | 271 | 1975 |
| Bionomics of leaf-mining insects. HA Hespenheide | 268 | 1991 |
| Food preference and the extent of overlap in some insectivorous birds, with special reference to the Tyrannidae HA Hespenheide Ibis 113 (1), 59-72, 1971 | 243 | 1971 |
| The selection of seed size by finches HA Hespenheide The Wilson Bulletin, 191-197, 1966 | 111 | 1966 |
| Selective predation by two swifts and a swallow in Central America HA Hespenheide Ibis 117 (1), 82-99, 1975 | 95 | 1975 |
| A novel mimicry complex: beetles and flies HA HESPENHEIDE Journal of Entomology Series A, General Entomology 48 (1), 49-55, 1973 | 78 | 1973 |
| Insect visitors to extrafloral nectaries of Byttneria aculeata (Sterculiaceae): relative importance and roles HA Hespenheide Ecological Entomology 10 (2), 191-204, 1985 | 73 | 1985 |
| Are there fewer parasitoids in the tropics? HA Hespenheide The American Naturalist 113 (5), 766-769, 1979 | 68 | 1979 |
| Flycatcher habitat selection in the eastern deciduous forest HA Hespenheide The Auk 88 (1), 61-74, 1971 | 55 | 1971 |
| Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies. D Quintero, A Aiello | 51 | 1992 |
| Nomenclatural notes on the Agrilinae (Buprestidae). IV HA Hespenheide The Coleopterists' Bulletin, 105-120, 1979 | 43 | 1979 |
| Competition and the genus Tyrannus HA Hespenheide The Wilson Bulletin 76 (3), 265-281, 1964 | 41 | 1964 |
| New country and state records, and other notes for Mexican Buprestidae (Coleoptera) RL Westcott, TH Atkinson, HA Hespenheide, GH Nelson Insecta Mundi, 217-232, 1989 | 40 | 1989 |
| Conoderinae Schoenherr, 1833 J Prena, E Colonnelli, HA Hespenheide, RAB Leschen, RG Beutel Handbook of zoology. Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera, beetles 3, 577-589, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| Taxonomy and biology of Central American robber flies with an illustrated key to genera (Diptera: Asilidae) EM Fisher, HA Hespenheide Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies. Oxford Univ. Press, New …, 1992 | 35 | 1992 |
| 3.7 Curculionidae Latreille RG Oberprieler African Entomology 18 (1), 203-204, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Wasps robbing food from ants: a frequent behavior? L LaPierre, H Hespenheide, A Dejean Naturwissenschaften 94, 997-1001, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Baja California peninsula, México HA Hespenheide, RL Westcott, CL Bellamy Zootaxa 2805 (1), 36-56, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
