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Nikolay Simov

(MSc, entomologist)
phone: (+359 2) 987 50 72; (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 673); e-mail:

Born: 25 January 1975, Sofia.
Education: Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (2000).
Speciality: zoology (entomology).
Invertebrates Department

Research interests


Heteroptera; taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography and ecology of the order in Bulgaria and in the Balkan Peninsula.

Current projects


Cytotaxonomic study of Dicyphinae species (Heteroptera, Miridae). Grant. B-1304/03

Selected publications


Lapeva A., N. Simov. 2001. Xylocoris formicetorum (Boheman, 1844), (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae), a new member of myrmecophilous fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 12: 29—31.

Simov N., 2001. Heteropterous fauna (Insecta: Heteroptera) of Kresna Gorge (SW Bulgaria). In: P. Beron (Ed.) Biodiversity of Kresna Gorge (SW Bulgaria): 189—203.

Simov, N. 2003. Diversity and Conservation Value of Heteroptera (Insecta) in the Rila Monastery Nature Park — In: D. Peev (Ed.). Rapid Ecological Assessment of Rila Monastery Nature Park, USAID: 117—133.

Simov N., M. Josifov. 2004. Contribution to the Bulgarian fauna of Heteroptera. — Historia naturalis bulgarica,, 16: 89—94.

Marinov M., N. Simov. 2004. Somatochlora arctica (Zetterstedt) and Leucorrhinia dubia (Vander Linden): Two new dragonfly species for the bulgarian fauna (Odonata: Corduliidae; Libellulidae). — Notulae Odonatologicae, 6 (3): 25—36.