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

1 December 2025 06:45

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 protected noctuid moth Dioszeghyana schmidtii (Dioszeghy, 1935) in Greece. The larvae were observed feeding on Valonia oak Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis.

The second, Two species of butterflies new for the Western Stara Planina Mts – Euphydryas aurinia and Heteropterus morpheus and new data for another rare species by Mario Langourov and Stanislav Abadjiev, reports two new species for the Western Stara Planina Mountains – Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) and Heteropterus morpheus (Pallas, 1771). A confirmation of a recently discovered population of Apatura metis Freyer, 1829 is given too.

And the third, A new species of Salicarus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Morocco by Fedor Konstantinov and Armand Matocq, presents Salicarus maroccanus sp. nov. from Morocco, the first record of the genus Salicarus in North Africa.

This completes volume 47. It contains 33 articles written by 93 authors on over 390 pages.

Important information for the authors: please note that from next year, each article will include a mandatory conflicts of interest statement from the relevant subject editor or editor-in-chief. We started doing this earlier and the articles in the last two issues in November and December already include these statements.

Expect the next issue on 5 January 2026.