Historia naturalis bulgarica — monthly online journal of natural history
Historia naturalis bulgarica
— monthly online journal of natural history

ISSN 2603-3186 (online) · ISSN 0205-3640 (print)

Historia naturalis bulgarica is a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Currently, the topics are mainly botany and zoology.

The journal is indexed in Crossref, DOAJ, EBSCO Research Databases, Scopus and others. Archival content is accessible through Biodiversity Heritage Library (volumes 1–15) and Zenodo (16–47).

Scopus CiteScore 2024: 0.7 · SNIP 2024: 0.491

Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) 2024: 0.284 · Q3 ↓Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Animal Science and Zoology — Q3, Aquatic Science — Q3, Insect Science — Q3, Plant Science — Q3

News
The August 2025 issue has been published
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… [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.… [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… [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… [read more]


Latest articles
Fungus gnat diversity in a semi-urban habitat in Slovakia: insights from an unconventional trapping method https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.113

Fungus gnat diversity in a semi-urban habitat in Slovakia: insights from an unconventional trapping method
Olavi Kurina; Katarína Loziaková Peňazziová; Tomáš Csank; Patrik Pastorek; Jozef Oboňa

This study presents the first comprehensive dataset of fungus gnats (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) collected with BG-Sentinel traps baited with CO2. Sampling was conducted from July to October…

Volume 47 (Issue 11): 361–371 · 3 November 2025

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The type specimens of Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.112

The type specimens of Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
Svetlozara Kazandzhieva

A catalogue of type specimens of fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (NMNHS) is presented.…

Volume 47 (Issue 11): 347–360 · 3 November 2025

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Zygaena sedi Fabricius 1787 discovered and burned on Sakar Mts in Bulgaria https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.111

Zygaena sedi Fabricius 1787 discovered and burned on Sakar Mts in Bulgaria
Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova; Ivaylo Todorov

Zygaena sedi sliwenensis Reiss, 1933 is a subspecies that only occurs in Bulgaria around Sliven Town, Karandila Place near the same town and Ivaylovgrad vicinity. The populations from…

Volume 47 (Issue 11): 343–346 · 3 November 2025

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New species of Aspiculuris (Spirurida, Oxyuroidea: Heteroxynematidae) in Dolichotis patagonum (Rodentia: Caviidae) from San Juan Province, Argentina https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.103

New species of Aspiculuris (Spirurida, Oxyuroidea: Heteroxynematidae) in Dolichotis patagonum (Rodentia: Caviidae) from San Juan Province, Argentina
Cynthia J. González-Rivas; Gabriel N. Castillo; Ivan Simoncelli

A new species of Aspiculuris (Oxyuroidea: Heteroxynematidae) collected from the cecum of the Patagonian mara Dolichotis patagonum in San Juan Province, Argentina, is described. The…

Volume 47 (Issue 10): 335–341 · 1 October 2025

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Olavi Kurina; Anna Dénes; Libor Dvořák; Kateřina Dvořáková; Jozef Oboňa; Jindřich Roháček; Peter Manko

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Latest volumes
Volume 47 (2025)
Volume 46 (2024)
Volume 45 (2023)
Volume 44 (2022)

Last published: issue 11 of volume 47. The publication of volume 47 is ongoing; last completed: volume 46.

Index descriptus
Aspiculuris sanjuanensis

González-Rivas, Castillo & Simoncelli, 2025 — New species of Aspiculuris (Spirurida, Oxyuroidea: Heteroxynematidae) in Dolichotis patagonum (Rodentia: Caviidae) from San Juan Province, Argentina

Animalia: Chromadorea: Rhabditida: Heteroxynematidae
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