Borislav Guéorguiev

(Associate Professor Dr)

phone: (+359 2) 987 50 72; (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 662); e-mail:

Born: 24 October 1967, Sofia.
Education: Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (1992).
Speciality: entomology.
Curation: Coleoptera (Insecta).

Invertebrates Department

Research interests

taxonomy:

Pterostichini (Carabidae), Palaearctic

Platyderus (Carabidae), Palaearctic (excl. Iberian Peninsula & North Africa)

cave, hypohean and high mountain Carabidae, Balkan Peninsula

cave beetles, Bulgaria

faunistics, ecology, and biogeography:

Carabidae (Coleoptera), Balkan Peninsula (excl. Western Balkans), Turkey

Leiodidae (Coleoptera), Bulgaria

Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera), Bulgaria

biodiversity, assessment of species, habitats and sites of conservation importance:

Coleoptera, Bulgaria

Current projects

‘First investigation of the ‘milieu souterrain superficiel’ (MSS) in Bulgaria: comparative analysis of the fauna of silicate and limestone MSS environments based on selected invertebrate animals’, 2006—2008

‘Optimisation of the Natura 2000 sites in Bulgaria’, 2007—2008

‘Annotated Catalogue of the Carabid Beetles of FYR Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae)’, 2007—2009

‘Assessment of forest communities of conservation importance based on invertebrate indicator groups in the Belasitsa Mountain (Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia)’, Bulgarian-Macedonian joined project, 2008—2009

Selected publications

Guéorguiev V., B. Guéorguiev. 1995. Catalogue of the ground-beetles of Bulgaria (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Pensoft Publishers, series faunistica No 2, Sofia—Moscow, 279 pp.

Guéorguiev B. 2003. Two new species of the genus Laemostenus Bonelli from Bulgaria and notes on L. euxinicus Nitzu (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini). — Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 26 (1): 21—29.

Guéorguiev B., M. Bunalski. 2004. Critical Review of the Families Glaresidae, Lucanidae, Trogidae, Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae and Ochodaeidae in Bulgaria (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). — Acta zoological bulgarica, 56 (3): 253—276.

Guéorguiev B. 2005. Two new cave inhabiting trechine beetles from Albania and Bulgaria (Coleoptera, Carabidae). — Fragmenta entomologica, Roma, 37 (1): 33—46.

Guéorguiev B., J. M. Lobo. 2006. Adephagous beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Adephaga) in the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece), pp. 283—346. — In: Beron P. (ed). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 3. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) I. Pensoft & Nat. Mus. Natur. Hist., Sofia.

Guéorguiev B. 2007. Annotated Catalogue of the Carabid Beetles of Albania (Coleoptera: Carabidae). — Pensoft Series Faunistica No 64, Sofia, 243 pp.

Guéorguiev B. 2007. Winklerites fodori sp. nov. and systematic position of Duvalius (Duvalius) fodori Scheibel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). — Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 53 (2): 107—115.

Guéorguiev B. 2007. Biogeography of the endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula. Pp. 297—356. In: Fet V., Popov A. (eds.). Biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 82, 687 pp., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht — Boston.

Bulirsch P., B. Guéorguiev. 2008. Taxonomic studies on the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species. — Zootaxa, 1679: 39—53 (14 January 2008).

Giachino P. M., B. Guéorguiev. 2008. Studi tassonomici su Leptodirinae di Bulgaria, con revisione dei generi Beskovia e Beronia e cheklist delle specie conosciute (Coleoptera Cholevidae). — Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 87: 79—115.

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