Stanislav Abadjiev

(Associate Professor Dr)

phone: (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 714); e-mail:

Born 16 March 1964, Kyustendil. Entomologist, web programmer, journalist.

Education

Secondary education (1979—1982): Regional Secondary School of Mathematics, Kyustendil

MSc (Entomology) (1984—1991): Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University

Dr (Entomology) (1996—1999): Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [thesis: Zoogeography of the butterflies of superfamilies Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea in Bulgaria (Insecta: Lepidoptera)]

Invertebrates Department

Research interests

Taxonomy of Neotropical Pierinae; butterflies of the Balkan Peninsula.

Honours, research grants

2004 — Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor Award for an appointment at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC; subject: Revision of the genus Leodonta and Types of Neotropical Pierinae [10 January — 8 February 2005]

2004 — Royal Society Grant for an appointment at The Natural History Museum, London; subject: Types of Neotropical Pierinae [11 October — 10 December 2004]

2003 — EU Grant (COLPARSYST) (IHP Programme) for 4 week access to the collections and library of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; subject: Type specimens of Balkan butterflies and Types of Neotropical Pieridae [6—31 October 2003]

2001 — EU Grant (SYS-RESOURCE) (IHP Programme) for 5 week access to the Entomology Department and Libraries of The Natural History Museum, London; subject: Type specimens of Balkan butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea) [12 November — 14 December 2001]

Expeditions

Karelia Coast, north of the Arctic Circle, Russia (1991); Albania (1994, 1995); Turkey, from Anatolia and the Taurus system to the Pontic Mountains (1996).

Current projects

Types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Genus- and species-group names of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Selected publications

Abadjiev, S., 2000. An Atlas of the Distribution of the Butterflies in Bulgaria (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia—Moscow, 335 pp.

Abadjiev, S., 2000. The problem name canidiaformis Drenowski and a proposed solution (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). — SHILAP Revta. lepid. 28 (111): 335—340.

Abadjiev, S., 2001. Description of a new subspecies of Erebia cassioides (Reiner & Hohenwarth, 1792) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Bulgaria. — Revue suisse de Zoologie 108 (1): 57—64.

Abadjiev, S., 2002. Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea). — Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 53: 3—53.

Abadjiev, S., 2005. An annotated catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. — Zootaxa 1022: 1—35. [PDF]

Abadjiev, S., 2005. The primary types of Neotropical Pierinae in the collection of Laboratoire d’Entomologie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Pieridae). — Atalanta 36 (1/2): 127—139, col. pls 3—5.

Abadjiev, S., 2006. Types of Neotropical Pierinae in the collection of Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). — Zootaxa 1143: 1—218. [PDF]

Abadjiev, S. & Beshkov, S., 2007. Prime Butterfly Areas in Bulgaria. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia—Moscow, 222 pp.

Bálint, Z. & Abadjiev, S., 2006. An annotated list of Imre Frivaldszky’s publications and the species- and infraspecies-group names he proposed for plants and animals (Regnum Plantare and Animale). — Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 98: 185—280. [PDF]

Schmitt, T., Rákosy, L., Abadjiev, S. & Müller, P., 2007. Multiple differentiation centres of a non-Mediterranean butterfly species in south-eastern Europe. — Journal of Biogeography 34 (6): 939—950. [PDF]

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