Stoyan Beshkov

(Associate Professor Dr)

phone: (+359 87) 7089035; 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

Tzvetkov, P., Dedov, I., Beshkov, S., Shurulinkov, P., 2022. Environmental Dimensions. — In: Pickard, D. (eds) Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham., pp. 111—134. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94743-9_6

Oláh, J., Beshkov, S., Ibrahimi, H., Kovács, T., Oláh, J. Jr, Vinçon, G., 2022. On the Trichoptera of the Balkan: survey on species complexes of Polycentropus ierapetra, Rhyacophila balcanica, R. bosnica and Notidobia nekibe. — Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 53 (1): 67—111. doi:10.18348/opzool.2022.1.67 [PDF]

Nahirnić-Beshkova, A. Beshkov, S., Jakšić, P., 2022. New records of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in Albania. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (10): 109—115. [PDF] doi:10.48027/hnb.44.101

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2022. Paracossulus thrips (Hübner, 1818) (Cossidae) and Lignyoptera fumidaria (Hübner, 1825) (Geometridae) — two Lepidoptera genera new for Serbia with a review of the distribution of these two Habitats Directive species in the Balkan Peninsula. — Ecologica Montenegrina, 51: 65—80. doi:10.37828/em.2022.51.8 [PDF]

Beshkov, S., 2022. Dyscia intermedia sp. n. — a new Geometrid species from Europe (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). — Ecologica Montenegrina, 53: 56—72. doi:10.37828/em.2022.53.7 [PDF]

Bereczki, J., Sielezniew, M., Verovnik, R., Beshkov, S., Kuznetsov, G., Bonelli, S., Tóth, J. P., 2022. Phylogeography reveals the origin of the two phenological forms of large blue, Phengaris arion (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). — Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 137 (2): 359—373. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blac081 [PDF]

Бешков, С., Нахирнич-Бешкова, А., 2022. План за действие за опазване на тигровата пеперуда (Euplagia quadripunctaria) в България за периода 2022—2031 г. — МОСВ, София, 84 стр. [PDF]

Zlatkov, B., Beshkov, S., Huemer, P., 2021. New Noctuoidea taxa from the Silver Coast of Bulgaria (Insecta: Lepidoptera). — Ecologica Montenegrina, 46: 98—119. doi:10.37828/em.2021.46.8 [PDF]

Plant, C. W., Beshkov, S., Jakšić, P., King, A., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2021. First report of Acasis appensata (Eversmann, 1842) in Serbia with an examination of the genus Acasis Duponchel, 1845 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) on the Balkan Peninsula. — Acta Entomologica Serbica, 26 (1): 31—40. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5008943 [PDF]

Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Toshova, T. B., Beshkov, S., 2021. New Data for the Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) from the Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. — Acta Zoologica Bulgarica. [PDF]

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