Stoyan Beshkov

(Associate Professor Dr)

phone: (+359 89) 6869601; e-mail:

Born: 31 August 1962, Sofia.
Education: Department of Ecology and Nature Protection at the Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (1987); biologist (1987—2001), PhD (2001), Associate Professor (since 2003).
Speciality: ecology, entomology.

Invertebrates Department

Research interests

Faunistics, taxonomy and systematics of Balkan’s Noctuidae

Zoogeography of West Palaearctic Noctuidae

Troglophilous Lepidoptera

Macrolepidoptera of the Balkan Peninsula

Protection of the natural habitats of butterflies and moths

NATURA 2000 Network

Leafmining moths of the Balkan Peninsula as co-worker with Prof. Jaroslaw Buszko (Torun, Poland)

Field research

Macrolepidoptera of Bulgaria — since 1984

Eastern Rhodopi, SE Bulgaria — 1989—2001

Several (more than 18) years field research in Kresna Gorge, SW Bulgaria

‘Steneto’ National Park, Central Stara Planina Mts, BG — 1986—1993

Besaparskite Ridove Hills; Black Sea Coast; W Stara Planina Mts, etc. — since 1984

Lepidoptera of Turkey — 8 collecting trips since 1991

Lepidoptera of Macedonia and Greece — several trips since 1992

Macrolepidoptera of Albania — 6 trips since 1992

Macrolepidoptera of West Palaearctic — since 1991

Macrolepidoptera of Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo — 2001

Macrolepidoptera of Montenegro — several trips in 2001, 2002, 2004

Macrolepidoptera of Tunisia — trip in 2006

Projects

Prime Butterfly Areas in Bulgaria, BBI Matra Project, Coordinator for Bulgaria 2005—2007

Favourable Conservation Status for NATURA 2000 species, BBI Matra Project (Coordinator for Invertebrates, 2006—2007)

Expert on Biodiversity (Lepidoptera) and involved in the Action Plans for several parks and many protected areas in Bulgaria

Membership

SEL — Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica

Forum Herbulot

Butterfly Conservation Europe

Member and constitutor of several NGO-s for nature protection; Member of editorial board of two foreign journals

Most recent publications

Nahirnic-Beshkova, A., Beshkov, S., Kucherenko, E. E., Efetov, K. A., 2021. Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) rediscovered in the Republic of North Macedonia by using sex attractant traps (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae). — SHILAP Revta. lepid., 49 (193): 161—170. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2021. Paracossulus thrips (Hübner, 1818) (Lep. Cossidae) re-discovered in Bulgaria with notes of some other surprising findings in the Dragoman Natura 2000 Protected Area. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 133: 22—30. [PDF]

Plant, C. W., Beshkov, S., Nahirnić, A., 2020. A new species of Elegia (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) from the Balkan Peninsula. — Nota Lepidopterologica, 43: 311—318. doi:10.3897/nl.43.54508 [PDF]

Oláh, J., Vinçon, G., Andersen, T., Beshkov, S., Ciubuc, C., Coppa, G., Hendrich, L., Johanson, K. A., Salokannel, J., Szczesny, B., 2020. Revision of the European Rhyacophila fasciata species complex by fine phenomics of the paramere (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae). — Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 51 (1): 21—54. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Plant, C. W., Nahirnić, A., King, A., Jakšić, P., 2020. A contribution to knowledge of Balkan Lepidoptera: moths collected in May-June 2018 in Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 132: 24—45. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Plant, C. W., Nahirnić, A., 2020. A contribution to knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera: some species collected in Albania in August 2018. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 132: 129—152. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić, A., 2020. Contribution to the Knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera: Nocturnal Lepidoptera of Western Serbia (Lepidoptera). — Ecologica Montenegrina, 30: 93—112. doi:10.37828/em.2020.30.9 [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić, A., 2020. Contribution to knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Macrolepidoptera). — Ecologica Montenegrina, 30: 1—27. doi:10.37828/em.2020.30.1 [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Kolev, I., Georgiev, D., 2020. Records of moths from the area of Stara Zagora City (Sarnena Gora Mts): literature review and a case study (Lepidoptera). — In: Georgiev, D., Bechev, D., Yancheva, V. (eds) Fauna of Sarnena Sredna Gora Mts, Part 1, ZooNotes, supplement 9: 142—158. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., 2020. A contribution to knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera: new Geometridae species for Serbia. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 132: 71—73. [PDF]

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