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The August 2026 issue has been published

(3 August 2026) — Issue 8 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 3 August. It includes three articles. The first, Campanula lactiflora – first report of a well-established neophyte in the Bulgarian flora, with some notes on C. latifolia by Rossen Vassilev, Antoaneta Petrova, Boris Assyov and Atanas Tanev, presents first records of Campanula lactiflora… [read more]

The July 2026 issue is out

(1 July 2026) — Issue 7 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 July. It includes three articles. The first, Beyond bats: hidden mammalian biodiversity in Bulgarian caves by Nia Toshkova, Vladimir R. Todorov, Stanimira Deleva, Ilya Acosta-Pankov, Rostislav Bekchiev, Mario Langourov, Nikolay Simov, Venislava Spasova and Nedko Nedyalkov, presents records… [read more]

The June 2026 issue has been published

(1 June 2026) — Issue 6 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 June. It includes two articles. The first, First records of the invasive plant Carpobrotus edulis from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast by Chavdar Gussev, Magdalena Valcheva and Bogdan Prodanov, presents first observations in Bulgaria of Carpobrotus edulis from both sand dunes and coastal… [read more]

The May 2026 issue has been published

(4 May 2026) — Issue 5 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 4 May. It includes four articles. The first, Floristic updates and a new species record for the Bulgarian flora by Georgi Kunev, Gabriela Petrova, Daniela Mihova and Ivan Kostadinov, presents new regional chorological data for eighteen plant taxa. One of the recorded species, Viola hymettia,… [read more]

The April 2026 issue is out

(1 April 2026) — Issue 4 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 April. It includes four articles. The first, New records of the oleander seed bug Caenocoris nerii (Germar, 1847) (Insecta: Hemiptera) in Bulgaria and notes on its hosts in the Black Sea region by Desislava Stoianova, Tania Karakicheva, Snejana Grozeva and Nikolay Simov, reports new records… [read more]

The March 2026 issue has been published

(2 March 2026) — Issue 3 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 2 March. It includes two articles. The first, Myriochila (Myriochila) melancholica melancholica (Fabricius, 1798) (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae), an expectable addition to the Bulgarian fauna by Fabian A. Boetzl, Lara Burtchen and Teodora Teofilova, presents the first record of Myriochila (Myriochila)… [read more]

The February 2026 issue is out

(2 February 2026) — The second issue of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 2 February. It includes three articles. The first, Revealing the lichenised and lichenicolous diversity of Parangalitsa Reserve, Bulgaria: first records of two noteworthy species for the country by Snezhina Popova and Veselin V. Shivarov, presents two noteworthy new records for… [read more]

The January 2026 issue has been published

(5 January 2026) — The first issue of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 5 January. It includes three articles. The first, New records of arboreal beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Bulgaria by Borislav Guéorguiev, Veselin Ivanov, Margarita Georgieva, Sevdalin Belilov, Denitsa Petrova and Georgi Georgiev, reports fifteen species of arboreal beetles… [read more]

Issue 12 is out, volume 47 is complete, and more information for the authors

(1 December 2025) — Issue 12 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 December. It includes three articles. The first, A new host plant record for Dioszeghyana schmidtii (Dioszeghy, 1935) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Greece: implications for larval ecology and conservation by Angelos Tsikas, reports the first larval host plant record for the rare and… [read more]

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]