The November 2026 issue has been published

2 November 2026 05:42

Issue 11 of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 2 November. It includes three articles.

The first, Studies on the Balkan Lepidoptera III by Stoyan Beshkov and Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova, presents new and interesting records of Balkan Lepidoptera.

The second, First record of Septorioides strobi Wyka & Broders (Septorioidaceae) in pine plantations in Bulgaria by Maria Dobreva, Margarita Georgieva, Pencho Dermendzhiev, Rumen Nachev and Georgi Georgiev, reports that Septorioides strobi Wyka et Broders (Ascomycota, Botryosphaeriales, Septorioideaceae), the causal agent of Septorioides needle blight, was detected for the first time in Bulgaria and Europe in 2023.

And the third, Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Helicidae) – a new introduced land snail species for the Bulgarian fauna by Ivailo Dedov, Aneliya Bobeva and Vukašin Gojšina, presents a new introduced snail – Cepaea hortensis (Müller, 1774) for the fauna of Bulgaria.