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 (16–48).

Scopus CiteScore 2024: 0.7 · SNIP 2024: 0.491

Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) 2024: 0.284 · Q3Agricultural 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 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… [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… [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… [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]


Latest articles
Checklist of the Phoridae (Diptera, Aschiza) of the Balkan Peninsula countries https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.48.013

Checklist of the Phoridae (Diptera, Aschiza) of the Balkan Peninsula countries
Mario Langourov

A total of 295 species of the family Phoridae (Diptera) belonging to 24 genera are presented from Balkan Peninsula countries, of which one genus (Stichillus) with one species is newly…

Volume 48 (Issue 1): 15–37 · 5 January 2026

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Centaurea kilaea – a new species to the flora of Bulgaria https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.48.012

Centaurea kilaea – a new species to the flora of Bulgaria
Rossen Tzonev; Magdalena Valcheva; Chavdar Gussev; Bogdan Prodanov

A rare species, endemic to the European part of Turkey: Centaurea kilaea Boiss., was found on the dunes at Veleka River Mouth, Southern Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria. This newly found population…

Volume 48 (Issue 1): 9–14 · 5 January 2026

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New records of arboreal beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Bulgaria https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.48.011

New records of arboreal beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Bulgaria
Borislav Guéorguiev; Veselin Ivanov; Margarita Georgieva; Sevdalin Belilov; Denitsa Petrova; Georgi Georgiev

Fifteen arboreal species of the families Ptinidae (1), Latridiidae (1), Trogossitidae (1), Mycetophagidae (1), Tenebrionidae (3), Zopheridae (3) and Laemophloeidae (5) are recorded…

Volume 48 (Issue 1): 1–8 · 5 January 2026

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A new species of Salicarus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Morocco https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.123

A new species of Salicarus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Morocco
Fedor Konstantinov; Armand Matocq

Salicarus maroccanus sp. nov. is described from Morocco, representing the first record of the genus Salicarus in North Africa. A differential diagnosis is provided, together with illustrations…

Volume 47 (Issue 12): 385–391 · 1 December 2025

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Volume 46 (Issue 5): 127–138 · 2 May 2024



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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 48 (2026)
Volume 47 (2025)
Volume 46 (2024)
Volume 45 (2023)

Last published: issue 1 of volume 48. The publication of volume 48 is ongoing; last completed: volume 47.

Index descriptus
Salicarus maroccanus

Konstantinov & Matocq, 2025 — A new species of Salicarus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Morocco

Animalia: Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae
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