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The November 2025 issue is out

(3 November 2025) — Issue 11 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 3 November. It includes three articles. The first, Zygaena sedi Fabricius 1787 discovered and burned on Sakar Mts in Bulgaria by Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova and Ivaylo Todorov, reports the fifth locality of the rare species Zygaena sedi in Bulgaria. The second, The type specimens of Keroplatidae… [read more]

Changes to our policies and guidelines for authors

(22 October 2025) — Come into effect immediately, the changes are on the About and editorial policies, Publication ethics and malpractice statement, and Author guidelines pages. In order to recognise an individual author’s contribution within a publication, it is now mandatory to indicate the contributor role for each of the co-authors. To facilitate authors, an online tool has… [read more]

New members of the editorial board of Historia naturalis bulgarica

(2 October 2025) — At a meeting of the Scientific Council of the National Museum of Natural History, held on 2 October 2025 (minutes number 142), the following four new editors of Historia naturalis bulgarica were elected: Dr Zsolt Bálint, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Assoc. Prof. Dr Larissa Ivanova, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; Assoc. Prof.… [read more]

The October 2025 issue has been published

(1 October 2025) — Issue 10 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 October. It includes three articles. The first, Acmaeoderella (Euacmaeoderella) villosula (Steven, 1830), a new record of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Bulgaria by Mark G. Volkovitsh, Vladimir Sakalian, Chavdar Gussev and Georgi Georgiev, reports Acmaeoderella (Euacmaeoderella)… [read more]

HNB cyber news September 2025

(23 September 2025) — Starting today, 23 September 2025, the website of our journal Historia naturalis bulgarica utilises a new responsive design for use on various devices with a screen size of less than 400 pixels. Also, starting today, an individual tracking module is available for authors whose works are already in or entering our manuscript management system. Other modules of… [read more]

The September 2025 issue is out

(1 September 2025) — Issue 9 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 September. It includes three articles. The first, A small family unit of house mouse (Mus musculus) with anomalous colouration in Slovakia by Alexander Csanády, presents research on a small family unit of house mouse from Slovakia, where thirteen individuals exhibited anomalous colouration… [read more]

The August 2025 issue has been published

(1 August 2025) — Issue 8 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 August. It includes two articles. The first, Studies on the Balkan Lepidoptera I by Stoyan Beshkov and Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova, presents data on 442 species of Lepidoptera from more than 120 localities with numerous genera and species new to Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia,… [read more]

The July 2025 issue has been published

(1 July 2025) — Issue 7 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 July. It includes two articles. The first, First record of the fungus Setomelanomma holmii (Pleosporales, Phaeosphaeriaceae) on Picea abies in Bulgaria by Maria Dobreva, Margarita Georgieva, Pencho Dermendzhiev, Vasil Velinov, Rumen Nachev and Georgi Georgiev, reports spruce needle drop… [read more]

The June 2025 issue has been published

(2 June 2025) — Issue 6 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 2 June. It includes three articles on insects. The first, Ectrepesthoneura arturi sp. n. from Baltic amber (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) by Dimitar Bechev, contains a description of a new species of the fungus gnats family Mycetophilidae from middle Eocene Baltic amber from Poland, the area… [read more]