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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]

Boev, Z., 2025. Bulgarian taxonomic terminology of birds and mammals (Aves et Mammalia — Vertebrata, Animalia). — Terminological Bulletin, 8: 193—200. https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2025-8-17 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Birds from Chalcolithic Settlements in the Plains of Bulgaria. — Quaternary, 8, 10: 1—11. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8010010 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Birds and People in Medieval Bulgaria—A Review of the Subfossil Record of Birds During the First and Second Bulgarian Empires. — Quaternary, 8, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8030036 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Animal remains from the Monastery of Chargubilya Mostich in Veliki Preslav (10—12th c. AD) — NE Bulgaria. — ZooNotes, 255: 1—4. https://doi.org/10.69085/zn20250255 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. A case of partial albinism in the western jackdaw Coloeus monedula (Linnaeus, 1758). — ZooNotes, 282: 1—3. [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2025. Studies on the Balkan Lepidoptera I — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (8): 169—285. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.081

Angelova, R., Gjonov, I., Bozukov, V., Simov, N., 2025. First record of a fossil spittlebug (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Aphrophoridae) in Miocene deposits in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47: 33—38. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.022