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Prof. Dr Pavel Stoev, zoologist, curator of non-insect invertebrates collections. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev

Pavel Stoev

(Professor Dr)
phone: (+359 2) 987 36 80; (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 685); e-mail:

Born: 5 December 1973, Targovishte.
Education: Sofia University (1998).
Speciality: zoologist.
Employment: Scientific Secretary (2007—2011), Curator of non-insect invertebrates (Arachnida, Mollusca, Myriapoda, etc.)
Other duties: Managing editor of International Journal of Myriapodology; Managing editor of Red Data Book of Bulgaria — Animals.
Invertebrates Department

Research interests


Taxonomy of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda); Biospeleology; Herpetology; Cybertaxonomy.

Current projects


World catalogue of the centipedes of order Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda)
Morphological atlas of the millipedes of order Callipodida (with P. Sierwald, K. Pitz)
Millipedes of Crete (Greece) (with I. Felesaki)
Review of genus Scolopendra in North Africa (with N. Akkari & J. Lewis)

PhD students


Darina Bachvarova — Shumen University Konstantin Preslavski

Alumni


Ioanna Felesaki (University of Crete)

Selected publications


Clark, V.R., Perera, S.J., Stiller, M., Stirton, C.H., Weston, P., Stoev, P., Coombs, G., Morris, D.B., Ratnayake-Perera, D., Barker, N.P., MacGregor, G.K. 2012. A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation. — SpringerPlus 2012, 1: 56 http://dx.doi.10.1186/2193-1801-1-56.

Graham, M., Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Blagoev, G., Fet, V. 2012. Euscorpius sicanus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Tunisia: DNA barcoding confirms ancient disjunctions across the Mediterranean Sea. — Serket, 13(1—2): 16—26.

Penev, L., Catapano, T., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Sautter, G., Stoev, P. 2012. Implementation of TaxPub, an NLM DTD extension for domain-specific markup in taxonomy, from the experience of a biodiversity publisher. — In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2012 [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2012. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100351/.

Remsen, D., Knapp, S., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2012. From text to structured data: Converting a word processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format. — PhytoKeys, 9: 1—13 http://dx.doi.10.3897/phytokeys.9.2770.

Beron, P., Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2011. The invertebrate cave fauna of the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). — In: Beron, P. (ed.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 4. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) II. Pensoft and National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 583—662.

Erwin, T., Stoev, P., Georgiev, T., Penev, L. 2011. ZooKeys 150: Three and a half years of innovative publishing and growth. In: Smith, V., Penev, L. (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. — ZooKeys 150: 5—14 http://dx.doi.10.3897/zookeys.150.2431.

Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2011. Two new cavernicolous genera of Julidae (Diplopoda, Julida), with notes on the tribe Brachyiulini and on julid subanal hooks and anchors. — ZooKeys, 114: 1—14 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.114.1490 [PDF].

Golovatch, S. I., Stoev, P. 2011. Review of the millipede genus Eustrongylosoma Silvestri, 1896 in the island of New Guinea, with descriptions of nine new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). — International Journal of Myriapodology, 5: 1—26 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ijm.5.2090.

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2011. A review of the millipede genus Sinocallipus Zhang, 1993 (Diplopoda, Callipodida, Sinocallipodidae), with notes on gonopods monotony vs. peripheral diversity in millipedes. — ZooKeys, 90: 13—34 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1291.

Penev, L., Hagedorn, G., Mietchen, D., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Sautter, G., Agosti, D., Plank, A., Balke, M., Hendrich, L. & Erwin, T. 2011. Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID. — ZooKeys, 90: 1—12 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1369.

Deltshev, C., Lazarov, S., Naumova, M. & Stoev, P. 2011. A survey of spiders (Araneae) inhabiting the euedaphic soil stratum and the superficial underground compartment in Bulgaria. — Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 40: 33—46 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Gerlach, J. 2010. Lithobiomorpha and Scutigeromorpha. — In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. (eds). Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, 376—378.

Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2010. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 3. — Arthropoda Selecta, 19 (3): 145—152.

Golovatch, S., Stoev, P., VandenSpiegel, D. 2010. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 2. — Arthropoda Selecta, 19 (3): 129—143.

Stoev, P., Korsos, Z. 2010. Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Factsheet 14.2. — In: Roques, A. Kenis, M., Lees, D., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Rabitsch, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Roy, D. (Eds) Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. — BioRisk, 4 (2): 864—865 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.4.69 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Zapparoli, M., Golovatch, S., Enghoff, H., Akkari, N., Barber, A. 2010. Myriapods (Myriapoda). Chapter 7.2. — In: Roques, A. Kenis, M., Lees, D., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Rabitsch, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Roy, D. (Eds) Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. — BioRisk, 4 (1): 97—130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.4.51 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Zapparoli, M., Porco, D., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Georgiev, T., Penev, L. 2010. The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. — ZooKeys, 50: 29—77 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504 [PDF].

Penev, L., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Catapano, T., Miller, J., Blagoderov, V., Roberts, D., Smith, V.S., Brake, I., Ryrcroft, S., Scott, B., Johnson, N.F., Morris, R.A., Sautter, G., Chavan, V., Robertson, T., Remsen, D., Stoev, P., Parr, C., Knapp, S., Kress, W.J., Thompson, F.C., Erwin, T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. — ZooKeys, 50: 1—16 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.538 [PDF].

Akkari, N., Enghoff, H., Stoev, P., Mauries, J.-P. 2010. On the identity of Basigona lucasii Silvestri, 1896, a poorly known millipede from Tunisia, with notes on the North African Chordeumatida (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Chamaesomatidae). — Zootaxa, 2427: 64—68 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Shelley, R. 2009. The millipede order Callipodida in Mexico, with descriptions of a new genus and species from Sonora (Schizopetalidae). — In: Roble, S.M., Mitchell, J.C. (eds.). A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, Martinsville, VA, pp. 159—165 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Popov, A., Blagoev, G., Lazarov, S. 2009. Fifty years of devotion to spiders: a concise biography of Christo Deltshev, with a complete list of his publications and described taxa. — In: Stoev, P., Dunlop, J., Lazarov, S. (eds). A life caught in a spider’s web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16: 1—26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.16.238 [PDF]

Golovatch, S.I., Mauries, J.-P., Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.-J. 2009. The millipede genus Glomeris Latreille, 1802 (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae) in North Africa. — ZooKeys, 12: 47—86 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.12.179 [PDF].

Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2009. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 1. — Arthropoda Selecta, 18 (3—4): 125—130. [PDF].

Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Nouira, S. 2009. The millipede order Julida (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) in Tunisia, with an overview of the North African species. — Soil organisms 81 (3): 453—488. [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2008. A new species of Acanthopetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae) from Bulgaria, with a review of the A. richii (Gray, 1832) group. — International Journal of Myriapodology, 2: 155—170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187525408X395922 [PDF].

Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Lewis, J.G.E. 2008. The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) of Tunisia: taxonomy, distribution and habitats. — ZooKeys, 3: 77—102 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.3.51 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2008. A revision of the millipede tribe Apfelbeckiini Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). — Steenstrupia, 30 (1): 47—66 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Sierwald, P., Billey, A. 2008. An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). — Zootaxa, 1706: 1—50 [PDF].

Vagalinski, B., Stoev, P. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the millipede order Julida (Diplopoda) in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 18: 35—63 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Panha, S., Fuangarworn, M. 2007. A second species in the millipede suborder Sinocallipodidea Shear, 2000 (Diplopoda: Callipodida). — Zootaxa, 1450: 63—68 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2007. First description of the male of the millipede Eurygyrus euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901) (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). — Zootaxa, 1447: 63—68.

Stoev, P. 2007. Myriapoda of Bulgaria. — In: Fet, V., Popov, A. (eds). Monographiae Biologicae. Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Dodrecht, Springer Publishers, 379—403.

Sammler, S., Voigtländer, K., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Müller, C.H.G. 2006. New studies on myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) from Ibiza with a checklist for the Balearic Islands. — Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 53 (2): 299—309.

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2006. A review of the millipede genus Dorypetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Dorypetalidae). — Zootaxa, 1254: 29—43.

Stoev, P. 2006. Scutigeromorpha. — In: Minelli, A. (ed.) CHILOBASE: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it, first release: 2 May 2006.

Scheller, U., Stoev, P. 2006. First records of Symphyla (Myriapoda) from Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 17: 35—37 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Lapeva-Gjonova, A. 2005. Myriapods from ant nests in Bulgaria (Chilopoda, Diplopoda). — Peckiana, 4: 131—142.

Stagl, V., Stoev, P. 2005. Type specimens of the order Callipodida (Diplopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. — Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Myriapoda. Band 19, Heft 2: 1—26.

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2005. A new cave-dwelling millipede of the genus Bollmania Silvestri, 1896 from Yunnan, China, with remarks on the reduction of the second female leg-pair (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Caspiopetalidae). — Journal of Natural History, 39: 1875—1891.

Stoev, P. 2005. On the identity of some poorly known lithobiid centipedes described by Karl Verhoeff (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). — Zootaxa, 796: 1—12.

Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.J. 2004. Review of the millipede family Paracortinidae Wang & Zhang, 1993 (Diplopoda: Callipodida). — Acta Arachnologica, 53 (2): 93—103 [PDF].

Beron, P., Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2004. The Invertebrate Cave Fauna of the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria, Greece). — In: Beron, P. & Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 791—822 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2004. The myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) of the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). — In: Beron, P. & Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 207—220 [PDF].

Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2004. A new species of the millipede genus Metonomastus Attems, 1937 from a cave in the Eastern Rhodopi Mountains, Bulgaria, with some remarks on its congeners (Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae). — In: Beron, P., Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 199—205 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2004. Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in Urban Environments in the City of Sofia, 299—306. — In: Penev, L., Niemelä, J., Kotze, D.J., Chipev, N. (eds) Ecology of the City of Sofia. Species and communities in an Urban Environment. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia—Moscow, 456 pp. [PDF]

Stoev, P. 2004. Centipedes (Chilopoda) from Greece in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 16: 81—88 [PDF].

Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.-J. 2004. An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). — Zootaxa, 635: 1—12.

Stoev, P. 2004. New distributional records of millipedes from Bulgarian caves (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 56 (2): 145—154 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2004. The first troglomorphic species of the millipede genus Paracortina Wang & Zhang, 1993 from south Yunnan, China (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Paracortinidae). — Zootaxa, 441: 1—8.

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2004. The first indigenous species of the millipede genus Eurygyrus C.L. Koch, 1847 from the European mainland, with remarks on E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), and a key to the species of the genus (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). — Zootaxa, 419: 1—8.

Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2003. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of genus Balkanopetalum Verhoeff, 1926 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). — Zootaxa, 272: 1—26.

Stoev, P. 2002. The scutigeromorphs (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 15: 79—85.

Stoev, P. 2002. A Catalogue and Key to the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria. Pensoft Publishers, Series Faunistica, 25, Sofia—Moscow, 103 pp.

Petrov, B., Stoev, P., Beshkov, V. 2001. A review of the species composition and distribution of the amphibians (Amphibia) and reptiles (Reptilia) in the Eastern Rhodopes Mountain. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 127—153. (In Bulgarian).

Stoev, P. 2001. On the centipedes (Chilopoda) of the Republic of Macedonia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 93—107 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2001. A synopsis of the Bulgarian cave centipedes (Chilopoda). — Arthropoda Selecta, 10 (1): 31—54.

Stoev, P. 2001. On centipedes (Chilopoda) of Albania, 2. — Arthropoda Selecta, 9 (3): 199—206. [for 2000] [PDF].

Stoev, P., Beron, P. 2001. On the type specimens of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. — Arthropoda Selecta, 9 (2): 91—102. [for 2000] [PDF].

Stoev, P. 2000. On the distribution, biology and ecology of reptiles and amphibians in the Derventsky Heights and the Sakar Mountain (South-East Bulgaria). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 12: 59—69 [PDF].

Spassov, N., Ivanov, V., Georgiev, K., Stoev, P. 1999. Study on the potential ecological corridors between the local populations of the brown bear in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 10: 133—146 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 1997. A check-list of the centipedes of the Balkan peninsula with some taxonomic notes and a complete bibliography (Chilopoda). — Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement, 51: 87—105.

Mauriès, J.-P., Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 1997. The millipedes of Albania: recent data, new taxa; systematical, nomenclatural and faunistical review (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). — Zoosystema, 19 (2—3): 255—292 [PDF].

Stoev, P. 1997. Notes on the Chilopoda of Albania, 1. — Arthropoda Selecta, 5 (3/4): 125—130. [for 1996].


— Popular books and booklets

Popov, A., Stoev, P. 2008. National Museum of Natural History. NMNH—BAS, Sofia, 20 pp.

Biserkov, V. (ed.), Naumov, B., Tsankov, N., Stoyanov, A., Petrov, B., Dobrev, D., Stoev, P. 2007. A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Bulgaria. Green Balkans, Sofia, 196 pp. (In Bulgarian).

Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2007. The underground world of the mountain Rhodopes. UNDP, Rhodopes Project, 86 pp. (In Bulgarian).


— Others

Stoev, P., Dunlop, J., Lazarov, S. (eds) 2009. A life caught in a spider’s web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16, 375 pp.

Deltshev, C., Stoev, P. (eds) 2006. Proceedings of the 22nd European Colloquium of Arachnology, Blagoevgrad 2005 — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 2006, Supplementum 1, 343 pp.