| Effects of clearing in a tropical rain forest on the composition of the coprophagous scarab beetle fauna (Coleoptera) HF Howden, VG Nealis Biotropica, 77-83, 1975 | 299 | 1975 |
| Panamanian Scarabaeinae: taxonomy, distribution, and habits (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). HF Howden, OP Young | 295 | 1981 |
| Scarab Beetles of the Genus Onthophagus Latreille North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) HF Howden, OL Cartwright Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1963 | 160 | 1963 |
| Biology and Taxonomy of North American Beetles of the Subfamily Geotrupinae, with Revisions of the Genera Bolbocerosoma, Eucanthus, Geotrupes, and Peltotrupes (Scarabacidae) HF Howden Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1955 | 152 | 1955 |
| Response of a dung beetle guild to different sizes of dung bait in a Panamanian rainforest SB Peck, HF Howden Biotropica, 235-238, 1984 | 138 | 1984 |
| Larval and adult characters of Frickius Germain, its relationship to the Geotrupini, and a phytogeny of some major taxa in the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) HF Howden Canadian Journal of Zoology 60 (11), 2713-2724, 1982 | 113 | 1982 |
| The Geotrupinae of North and Central America HF Howden The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 96 (S39), 5-91, 1964 | 94 | 1964 |
| Insect-vegetation relationships in an area contaminated by radioactive wastes DA Crossley, HF Howden Ecology 42 (2), 302-317, 1961 | 76 | 1961 |
| A review of the trichiinae of north and central america (coleoptera: scarabaeidae) HF Howden The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 100 (S54), 5-77, 1968 | 71 | 1968 |
| Insect communities of standing dead pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) HF Howden, GB Vogt Annals of the Entomological Society of America 44 (4), 581-595, 1951 | 70 | 1951 |
| Effects of the Pleistocene on North American insects HF Howden Annual Review of Entomology 14 (1), 39-56, 1969 | 69 | 1969 |
| The new world Aesalinae, with notes on the North American lucanid subfamilies (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) HF Howden, JF Lawrence Canadian journal of zoology 52 (12), 1505-1510, 1974 | 66 | 1974 |
| A review of the New World genera of the myrmecophilous and termitophilous subfamily Hetaeriinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) JVT Helava | 62 | 1987 |
| A revision of the African Cathonina (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) CH Scholtz, HF Howden Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 50 (1), 75-119, 1987 | 61 | 1987 |
| Notes on Canthonini of the “Biologia Centrali-Americana” and descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) HF Howden The Canadian Entomologist 98 (7), 725-741, 1966 | 59 | 1966 |
| Mesoamerican Onthophagus Latreille in the dicranius and mirabilis species groups (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) HF Howden, BD Gill The Canadian Entomologist 125 (6), 1091-1114, 1993 | 53 | 1993 |
| Tribes of New World Ceratocanthinae, with keys to genera and descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). HF Howden, BD Gill | 51 | 2000 |
| Changes in a Texas dung beetle community between 1975 and 1985 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) HF Howden, CH Scholtz The Coleopterists' Bulletin, 313-316, 1986 | 50 | 1986 |
| Speculations on some beetles, barriers, and climates during the Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene periods in some non-glaciated portions of North America HF Howden Systematic Zoology 12 (4), 178-201, 1963 | 50 | 1963 |
| Some possible effects of the Pleistocene on the distributions of North American Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) HF Howden The Canadian Entomologist 98 (11), 1177-1190, 1966 | 48 | 1966 |
