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Dr Stanislav Abadjiev. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Dr Stanislav Abadjiev. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Prime Butterfly Areas in Bulgaria — Identifying and describing the most important sites for butterflies in the country

Stanislav Abadjiev

(Associate Professor Dr)
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Born 1964, Kyustendil. Entomologist, web programmer.

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)]

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


Field studies on distribution and abundance of invertebrates, EEA

Most recent publications


Langourov, M., Simov, N., Abadjiev, S., 2022. The invasion continues: Hierodula tenuidentata (Mantodea), Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hemiptera) and Pelopidas thrax (Lepidoptera) already on the island of Alonnisos. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (11): 137—144. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.44.112

Langourov, M., Simov, N., Abadjiev, S., 2021. Three species of butterflies new for the North Aegean Island of Lemnos (Greece). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 42: 79—86. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.42.101

Abadjiev, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2021. Type specimens of Zygaenidae in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 42: 9—13. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.42.031

Abadjiev, S., Langourov, M., 2020. The type specimens of Papilionoidea in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera). — Zootaxa, 4790 (3): 473—490. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.3.3

Abadjiev, S., Langourov, M., 2020. Additional types of Papilionoidea from the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 41: 95—98. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.41.12002

Langourov, M., Simov, N., Abadjiev, S., 2019. Notes on the distribution of some species of Lepidoptera in Kazakhstan. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 36: 1—6. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.36.01001

Abadjiev, S., 2019. Gemmological samples: rock crystal from two localities in the Rhodopes, Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 38: 1—4. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.38.01001

Abadjiev, S., Beshkov, S., 2018. On a small collection of Swedish Lepidoptera, kept at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 31: 1—4. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.31.01001

Abadjiev, S., 2018. Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 33: 1—12. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.33.01001

Beshkov, S., Abadjiev, S., Dimitrov, D., 2015. Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) — new invasive pest moth in Bulgaria. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 127: 18—22. [PDF]


More complete list of publications — section e-Natura | Staff publications