Stoyan Beshkov

(Associate Professor Dr)

phone: (+359 89) 6869601; 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

Oláh, J., Andersen, T., Beshkov, S., Coppa, G., Ruiz Garcia, A., Johanson, K. A., 2019. Revision of European Wormaldia species (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae): Chimeric taxa of integrative organisation. — Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 50 (1): 31—85. [PDF]

Nahirnić, A., Beshkov, S., Kaynarov, D., 2019. New records of Adscita obscura (Zeller, 1847) (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Procridinae) on the Balkan Peninsula. — Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Plovdiv, 4: 15—19. [PDF]

Maes, D., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., Brosens, D., Beshkov, S.,…, 2019. Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies. — Journal of Insect Conservation. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-019-00127-z

Kostova, R., Bekchiev, R., Beshkov, S., 2019. Coleoptera and Lepidoptera (Insecta) diversity in the central part of Sredna Gora Mountains (Bulgaria). — Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 10: 75—95. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić, A., 2019. A contribution to knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera: species collected in the autumn of 2018 in Albania (Macrolepidoptera with some Crambidae). — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 131: 66—102. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Micevski, N., 2019. Eupithecia gratiosata Herrich-Schäffer, 1861 and Metachrostis dardouini (Boisduval, 1840) new for the Republic of Macedonia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 37: 1—4. [PDF]

Oláh, J., Andersen, T., Beshkov, S., Ciubuc, C., Coppa, G., Ibrahimi, H., Kovács, T., Oláh jr, J., Szczesny, B., 2018. Unified phylogenetic species concept: taking subspecies and race out of science: postmodern theory applied to the Potamophylax cingulatus group (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae). — Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 49 (1): 33—70. [PDF]

Nahirnić, A., Beshkov, S., 2018. Novelties in the fauna of the subfamily Zygaeninae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) of Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 70 (4): 465—468. [PDF]

Micevski, N., Nahirnić, A., Beshkov, S., Kucherenko, E. E., Efetov, K. A., 2018. Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) (Zygaenidae, Procridinae) rediscovered in the Republic of Macedonia by applying attractant traps. — Abstracts of the XVI. International Symposium on Zygaenidae, İzmir—Turkey, 1—5 May 2018: 19. [PDF]

Micevski, N., Nahirnić, A., Beshkov, S., 2018. Contribution to the knowledge of Zygaena Fabricius, 1775 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) of the Republic of Macedonia. — Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var., 130: 41—55. [PDF]

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