[publications]
Tokareva, A., Żyła, D., (submitted). Comparative morphology of mesoventrite in Paederinae: insights for subtribal-level phylogenetic reconstructions. —
Spassov, N., Iliev, N., (in press). Notes on the animal bone remains from the early excavations (1956—1959) of the late Chalcolithic site near Hotnitsa. — In: St. Chohadjiev (ed.) Hotnitsa — The Prehistoric settlement, Vol. I. Tirnovo.
Spassov, N., Iliev, N., (in press). Analyses of the bones from domestic and wild mammals from the Bronze Age settlement near Baley. — In: St. Alexandrov (ed.). Baley, the settlement from the Late Bronze age. Sofia.
Spassov, N., Georgiev, K., Ivanova, N., Ivanov, V., (in press). Study on the status of the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna peregusna Guld.) in Southern Dobrudja (Bulgaria). — Bull. of the Mustelidae, Viverridae & Procyonidae group IUCN/SSC.
Spassov, N., Georgiev, K., Ivanov, V., (in press). The Population Status and Dynamics of the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos L.) on the Cross-Border Region between Bulgaria and Greece. — Bull. of the Belgrade Mus. of Nat. Hist.
Ranpal, S., Stecker, R.-M., Fischer, N., Altewischer, A., Toshkova, N., Zhelyazkova, V., Fritze, M., Puechmaille, S., Dool, S., (in press). Genetic Identification of the source of the North American population of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the invasive fungus causing White-Nose Disease in Bats. — .
Kamenova, S., Rolandsen, C., Fossøy, F., Davey, M., Davidson, R. K., Solberg, E. J., Mysterud, A., (in press). Comparing traditional and metabarcoding methods to estimate helminth endoparasites in moose. — Parasites and Vectors.
Kamenova, S., Meyer, P., Utsi, T. A., Тrosvik, P., de Muinck, E., Sundset, M. A., Coissac, É., Brysting, A. K., Gusarova, G., (in press). Variation in gut microbiome composition across the digestive tract of reindeer. — Wildlife Microbiology special issue of Microorganisms.
Kamenova, S., Meyer, P., Brysting, A. K., Rescia, L., Folkow, L., Gusarova, G., Sundset, M. A., Coissac, É., (in press). DNA metabarcoding diet analysis reveals long DNA retention times and predictable DNA decay dynamics in reindeer. — Molecular Ecology Resources.
Kamenova, S., Marrec, R., Tougeron, K., (in press). Gut microbiome divergence in four closely co-occurring species of insect generalist predators. — Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
Kamenova, S., Kostadinova, D., Hristov, H., Nedyalkov, N., Coissac, É., (in press). DNA metabarcoding detects natural and supplemental feed in the winter diet of a recently re-introduced European bison. — Forest Ecology & Management.
Kamenova, S., Coissac, E., Utsi, T. A., Brysting, A. K., Gusarova, G., Speed, J. D. M., (in press). Season and management regime jointly drive variations in annual diet in semi-domesticated reindeer. — Journal of Animal Ecology.
Kamenova, S., Bretagnolle, V., Plantegenest, M., Canard, E., (in press). DNA metabarcoding diet analysis reveals dynamic feeding behaviour and biological control potential of carabid farmland communities. — Ecology and Evolution.
Bacvarov, K. (ed.), Zidarov, P., Karastoyanova, N., (in press). Faunal remains from late Neolithic pit deposit. — In: Sarnevo: Ritual site from the late Neolithic, the Iron Age and the Roman period. Sofia: National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, 2011.
Спасов, Н., Илиев Н., Боев, З., (in press). Животинските останки от ранно-неолитното селище край с. Капитан-Димитриево ( Пазарджишка област). — В: В. Николов и др. Селищна могила Капитан Димитриево. Разкопки 2001—2005. Под ред. на В. Николов. София, 2011.
Петрусенко, С., (in press). Първа находка на александрит в България. — Сп. Мин. дело и геол. [PDF]
Tokareva, A., Koszela, K., Guzman, C. Y., Żyła, D., (in prep.). Reconstruction of the genus-level dated phylogeny of Paederinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) based on genomic (UCEs) and morphological data. —
Zhelyazkova, V., Tičar, J., Deleva, S., Ivanov, A., Toshkova, N., Puechmaille, S., 2025. Cavers’ knowledge of biosecurity and its influence on the prevention of white-nose disease. — Subterranean Biology, 52: 45—68.
Toshkova, N., Zhelayzkova, V., Koseva, K., Dimitrova, K., Elshaer, F., Lacombe, R. V., …, Dimitrov, J. D., 2025. An integrative approach for profiling antibody responses in bats to human pathogens. — EMI: Animal & Environment: 1—25.
Szanyi, Sz., Barta, M., Velchev, D., Beshkov, S., Mumford, S., Todorov, I., Nagy, A., Varga, Z., Tót, M., Toshova, T., 2025. First Report of a Migratory Pest, the Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from Bulgaria. — Insects, 2025, 16: 134. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16020134 [PDF]
Simov, N., Borissov, S., Antonova, V., 2025. A silent predator ad portas — Dolichoplana striata Moseley, 1877 (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) recorded for the first time in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47: 125—130. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.054
Sendra, A., Fiera, C., Selfa, J., Stoev, P., 2025. Soil campodeids (Diplura, Campodeidae) of Eastern Europe, in Romanian and Bulgarian reliefs. — ZooKeys, 1224: 261—282. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1224.137935
Nikolov, V., Hristova, L., Markov, G., Bogdanova, R., Spassov, N., 2025. From the dinosaurs to the earliest human ancestors: The vertebrate palaeontology at the National Museum of Natural History-BAS. Part 3. — Geology and Mineral Resources, 32 (4—5): 37—43.
Nikolov, V., Hristova, L., Markov, G., Bogdanova, R., Spassov, N., 2025. From the dinosaurs to the earliest human ancestors: The vertebrate palaeontology at the National Museum of Natural History-BAS. Part 2. — Geology and Mineral Resources, 32 (2—3): 39—44.
Nikolov, V., Hristova, L., Markov, G., Bogdanova, R., Spassov, N., 2025. From the dinosaurs to the earliest human ancestors: The vertebrate palaeontology at the National Museum of Natural History-BAS. Part 1. — Geology and Mineral Resources, 32 (1): 29—34.
Nikolov, V., Andreev, P., Voykov, G., Dochev, D., 2025. The first record of gars (Ginglymodi: Lepisosteidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Bulgaria reveals a wider paleogeographic distribution of lepisosteids within the European Archipelago. — Cretaceous Research, 165: 105985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105985
Nguyen, A. D., Stoev, P., Vu, T. T. T., 2025. Integrative data reveal a new millipede species of Sinocallipus Zhang, 1993 (Callipodida, Sinocallipodidae) from Vietnam, with notes on its phylogeny. — Zoosystematics and Evolution, 101 (1): 69—80. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.138716
Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2025. An updated checklist of Psychidae (Lepidoptera) of Albania. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (5): 101—106. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.052
Mlíkovský, J., Boev, Z. N., 2025. Type specimens of recent birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 77 (3): 415—418. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb77.3.002878 [PDF]
Milosevic, S., Boev, Z., Dimitrijevic, V., Mihailovic, D., 2025. Early fowlers of Europe: evidence for bird exploitation during MIS 8/7 from Velika Balanica cave (Serbia). — Quaternary International, 738 (2025) 109868: 1—9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109868
Marinov, M., Donnelly, T., Beatty, C., 2025. Nikoulabasis dalingarum, sp. nov. from Fiji (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). — Zootaxa, 5601 (2): 395—400.
Langourov, M., Abadjiev, S., 2025. Two species of butterflies new for the Western Stara Planina Mts — Euphydryas aurinia and Heteropterus morpheus and new data for another rare species. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (12): 377—383. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.122
Konstantinov, F., Matocq, A., 2025. A new species of Salicarus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Morocco. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (12): 385—391. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.123
Kazandzhieva, S., Langourov, M., Bechev, D., Nguyen, H., 2025. A new species of Chalastonepsia Søli, 1996 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from Vietnam. — Biodiversity Data Journal, 13: e153645. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e153645
Kazandzhieva, S., 2025. The type specimens of Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (11): 347—360. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.112
Kazandzhieva, S., 2025. The fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) collection of the Regional Natural History Museum — Plovdiv. — Bulletin of the Natural History Museum — Plovdiv, 10: 1—16.
Ivanov, V., Kechev, M., Georgieva, M., Belilov, S., Mirchev, P., Hubenov, Z., Georgieva, L., Georgiev, G., 2025. Gasterocercus depressirostris depressirostris (Fabricius) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) — a new xylophagous pest of Quercus cerris L. and a new robber fly (Diptera, Asilidae) predator on it in Bulgaria. — Biodiversity Data Journal, 13: e167767. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e167767 [PDF]
Hubenov, Z., 2025. The Dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) of the Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 77 (1): 23—39. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb77.1.002800 [PDF]
Hubenov, Z., 2025. Review of the Hosts of the Family Tachinidae (Diptera: Insecta) in Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 77 (1): 131—144. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb77.1.002812 [PDF]
Hubenov, Z., 2025. Invertebrate Animals (Metazoa: Invertebrata) from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. — Generis Publishing, Chișinău, 277 pp. [PDF a; PDF b]
Hubenov, Z., 2025. Fauna, Distribution and Areographical Structure of the Dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) from the High Bulgarian Mountains. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 77 (2): 149—172. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb77.1.002830 [PDF]
Gwee, Ch. Y., Tassoni, L., Boev, Z., Tomek, T., Bochenski, Z. M., Talamo, S., Wolf, J. B. W., 2025. Performance of Two Custom Probe Kits for In-Solution Enrichment of Ancient Avian DNA. — Molecular Ecology Resources, 0:e70071: 1—14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70071 [PDF]
Gjonov, I., Simov, N., 2025. First record of Pochazia shantungensis (Chou & Lu, 1977) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) in Bulgaria: alien and potentially invasive species on Via Pontica. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47: 49—53. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.032
Fischer, N. M., Dumville, I., Nabholz, B., Zhelyazkova, V., Stecker, R. M., Blomberg, A. S., …, Puechmaille, S. J., 2025. Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats. — Nature, 1—7.
Demerdzhiev, D., Dobrev, D., Delchev, A., Iliev, M., Georgiev, G., Terziev, N., Angelov, I., Arkumarev, V., 2025. Temporally determinate, but spatially consistent breeding performance of Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) along the southern periphery of its distribution. — Diversity, 17 (8): 566. [PDF]
Boev, Z., 2025. Woodland Birds from Neolithic Settlements in Bulgaria. — Diversity, 17, 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17020107 [PDF]
Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia theriologica taxonomica bulgarica. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the mammals of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. — National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 462 pp. [PDF]
Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia ornithologica bulgarica. Vol. I. Taxonomia. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the birds of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. Part 2. Passeriformes. — National Museum of Natural History — Bulgarian Ornithological Society, Sofia, 508 pp. [PDF]
Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia ornithologica bulgarica. Vol. I. Taxonomia. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the birds of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. Part 1. Non-Passeriformes. — National Museum of Natural History — Bulgarian Ornithological Society, Sofia, 432 pp. [PDF]
Boev, Z., 2025. Specimens of the globally extinct Slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. — Larus, 60: 65—69. https://doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrce15y [PDF]