Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova

(Assistant)

phone: (+359) 89 6869601, (+381) 69 1227987; e-mail:

Born on: 27 December 1987, Kruševac, Serbia.

Education: Faculty of Biology, University in Belgrade; Bachelor Biologist (2010); MSc Ecologist (2012); speciality: entomology, ecology.

Research interests

Taxonomy, faunistics, biogeography and ecology of Zygaenidae; faunistics of butterflies and Psychidae of the Balkan Peninsula.

Specialisations and international cooperation

Research guest visits in Zygaenidae collection in Tiroler Landesmuseen, Ferdinandeum Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Innsbruck, Austria, during 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 (11 weeks)

Research guest in Zygaenidae collection in National Museum of Natural History in Sofia in 2014 (2 weeks)

Research guest in Zygaenidae collection in Natural History Museum in London 2015 (2 weeks)

Research guest in Zygaenidae collection in Museum Witt München and Zoologische Staatssammlung München in 2015 (1 month)

Research guest in Zygaenidae collection in Nature Museum Bolzano in 2017 (7 weeks)

Field research

Albania (2016—2019, 2022—), Bosnia & Herzegovina (2017, 2023—), Bulgaria (2013—2015, 2018—), Greece (2016—2019, 2024—), Montenegro (2011—2017, 2019, 2023—), North Macedonia (2010, 2015—2019, 2023—), Serbia (2005—), Turkey (2018).

Projects

Biodiversity of target insect groups (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) and their pathogens from different habitats in Bulgaria

GENBUL: Database of genome references for endemic invertebrates and plants species in Bulgaria

The Zygaenidae of the Balkan Peninsula (ODINS — Österreichische Digitalisierungsinitiative naturkundlicher Sammlungen: Südostwind)

Zygaena purpuralis complex (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) (Synthesys: Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Vienna)

Biodiversity of the green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) in Serbia (RP BioDiv CHRYSER 2015—2016)

Membership

SEL — Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica

Most recent publications

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

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

Georgiev, D., Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., 2024. New records of Psocoptera (Insecta) from Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia. — Acta Entomologica Serbica, 29 (1): 33—36. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12607975 [PDF]

Beshkov, S., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Jakšić, P., 2024. Contribution to knowledge of the Balkan Lepidoptera III. — Ecologica Montenegrina, 73: 226—287. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.73.21 [PDF]

Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Danyik, T., Vassilev, K., Toshova, T. B., Beshkov, S., 2023. Phlomis tuberosa L. (Lamiaceae) Confirmed as a Host Plant of Paracossulus thrips (Hübner, 1818) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) in Bulgaria, with Notes on Habitats and Recommendations of a Survey Method. — Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 75 (2): 259—264. [PDF]

Devetak, D., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Jakšić, P., Klokočovnik, V., Klenovšek, T., Badano, D., Podlesnik, J., 2023. Review of Antilions (Insecta: Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) in North Macedonia. — Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 75 (2): 169—180.

Devetak, D., Jakšić, P., Nahirnić-Beshkova, A., Janžekovič, F., Klenovšek, T., Podlesnik, J., Klokočovnik, V., 2023. Contribution to the knowledge of Neuropterida (Raphidioptera, Neuroptera) of Serbia collected in the period 2015—2016. — Acta entomologica slovenica, 31 (1): 77—100.

Бешков, С., Нахирнич-Бешкова, А., 2023. План за действие за опазване на пеперудата бяло-V (Nymphalis vaualbum) в България за периода 2024—2033 г. — Министерство на околната среда и водите, София, 116 стр., [PDF]; [резюме PDF], 33 стр.; [приложения PDF].

Бешков, С., Нахирнич-Бешкова, А., 2023. План за действие за опазване на пеперудата Paracossulus (Catopta) thrips (Hübner, 1818) в България за периода 2024—2033 г. — Министерство на околната среда и водите, София, 118 стр., [PDF]; [резюме PDF], 33 стр.; [приложения PDF].

Nahirnić-Beshkova, A. Beshkov, S., Jakšić, P., 2022. New records of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in Albania. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 44 (10): 109—115. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.101

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