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Dr Mario Langourov, entomologist. Photo: (c) Nikolay Simov
Dr Mario Langourov, entomologist. Photo: (c) Nikolay Simov

Mario Langourov

(Associate Professor Dr)
phone: (+359 2) 9885116; e-mail:

Born 10 July 1971, Sofia. Entomologist.

Education


Secondary education (1985—1989): National High School for Natural Sciences and Mathematics ‘Acad. L. Chakalov’
MSc (Entomology) (1989—1995): Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University
Dr (Entomology) (2001): Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [thesis: Faunistical, ecological, and zoogeographical investigations on family Phoridae (Diptera, Brachycera) from Vitosha Mountain]

Research interests


Taxonomy and systematics of Phoridae (Diptera); butterflies of the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor; biodiversity, conservation problems of invertebrates.

Expeditions


Albania (1994); Turkey, from Anatolia and the Taurus system to the Pontic Mountains (1996), Italy (2005) and many others around the Balkans (Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro).

Most recent publications


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

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

Abadjiev, S., Langourov, M., Simov, N., 2025. A long-awaited guest in the Bulgarian fauna, Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera), is already here. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 47 (9): 315—318. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.093

Tolchkov, V., Hodzhev, Y., Tsafarova, B., Nenova, R., Mikov, O., Simov, N., Slavov, G., Nedyalkov, N., Langurov, M., Bekchiev, R., Stoev, P., Nikolova M., Panaiotov, S., 2024. Human pathogens among bats. — Problems of Infectious Parasitic Diseases, 52 (2): 32—38. https://doi.org/10.58395/51hccc30

Toshkova, N., Dimitrova, K., Langourov, M., Zlatkov, B., Bekchiev, R., Ljubomirov, T., Zielke, E., Angelova, R., Parvanova, R., Simeonov, Tz., Simov, N., 2023. Snacking during hibernation? Winter bat diet and prey availabilities, a case study from Iskar Gorge, Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 45: 125—142. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.45.053

Simov, N., Toshkova, N., Langourov, M., 2022. An unexpected guest in the winter: first record of Aradus bimaculatus Reuter, 1872 (Hemiptera: Aradidae) for the Balkan fauna. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (9): 91—95. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.091

Langourov, M., Simov, N., Abadjiev, S., 2022. The invasion continues: Hierodula tenuidentata (Mantodea), Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hemiptera) and Pelopidas thrax (Lepidoptera) already on the island of Alonnisos. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (11): 137—144. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.112

Langourov, M., Raeburn, H., 2022. A new locality of the violet copper Lycaena helle ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775) on the Balkan Peninsula. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (6): 41—44. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.061

Langourov, M., 2022. Butterflies of Bulgaria. Photographic field guide. — National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 355 pp. [PDF]

Simov, N., Langourov, M., Sakalian, V., Bozukov, V., 2021. First fossil jewel beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Middle Miocene deposits in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 42: 31—34. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.42.052


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