# Historia naturalis bulgarica

Historia naturalis bulgarica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published by the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria.
The journal is being published as of 1989, and as of 2018 is published only electronically. The journal published scientific contributions on paleontology, zoology, botany, geology and mineralogy, as well as original articles on history of natural sciences and natural history institutions. The papers are published in English language only under the free license CC BY 4.0.

## Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief is Stanislav Abadjiev, and the members of the Editorial Board are Boyan Zlatkov, Georgi N. Markov, Mario Langurov, Nikolay Simov, Peter Shurulinkov, Vladislav Vergilov, Christo Deltshev, Fedor V. Konstantinov, Giancarlo Statti, Ljiljana Tomović, Peter Huemer, Peter Jäger, Richard Gemel, Rossen Tzonev, Snejana Grozeva.

## Indexing

As of June 2021, Historia naturalis bulgarica is indexed in the Crossref, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus.

## Index descriptus

The journal maintains an "Index descriptus" representing a list of newly described organisms, new subspecies, species and a genus, whose descriptions appear for the first time on the pages of Historia naturalis bulgarica. As of October 2020, the list contains 53 taxa, geographically located in Albania, Antarctica, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, France, Greece, Iceland, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Tunisia, Turkey.
| Year | Taxon from Index descriptus | Genus |
| 1998 | Actitis balcanica | Actitis |
| 2004 | Alistratia | Alistratia |
| 2004 | Alistratia beroni | Alistratia |
| 1991 | Athripsodes ceracleoides | Athripsodes |
| 2007 | Batrisodes mitovi | Batrisodes |
| 2015 | Bythiospeum iltchokolevi | Bythiospeum |
| 2000 | Caeculisoma haussa | Caeculisoma |
| 2000 | Cecidopus nigeriae | Cecidopus |
| 1991 | Ceraclea armata | Ceraclea |
| 1991 | Ceraclea coreana | Ceraclea |
| 1991 | Ceraclea gigantea | Ceraclea |
| 1991 | Ceraclea morsei | Ceraclea |
| 2020 | Chauvireria bulgarica | Chauvireria |
| 1998 | Coccothraustes balcanicus | Coccothraustes |
| 1998 | Coccothraustes simeonovi | Coccothraustes |
| 1997 | Cordioniscus kalimnosi | Cordioniscus |
| 2002 | Cordioniscus schmalfussi | Cordioniscus |
| 2000 | Cymindis beroni | Cymindis |
| 2000 | Cymindis uyguricus | Cymindis |
| 2008 | Dicyphus constrictus eduardi | Dicyphus |
| 2002 | Elaphoidella brevicaudata | Elaphoidella |
| 2000 | Euscorpius beroni | Euscorpius |
| 1998 | Fulica atra pontica | Fulica |
| 1997 | Gabrius beroni | Gabrius |
| 2016 | Heterolaophonte islandica | Heterolaophonte |
| 1990 | Hydroptila asymmetrica | Hydroptila |
| 1990 | Hydroptila botosaneanui | Hydroptila |
| 1990 | Hydroptila coreana | Hydroptila |
| 1990 | Hydroptila extrema | Hydroptila |
| 1990 | Hydroptila hubenovi | Hydroptila |
| 2012 | Laemostenus tiouirii | Laemostenus |
| 2020 | Maraenobiotus rhodopensis | Maraenobiotus |
| 2020 | Maraenobiotus rilaensis | Maraenobiotus |
| 1997 | Molops piceus osogovensis | Molops |
| 1997 | Molops rufipes denteletus | Molops |
| 1995 | Neotrombidium cubanum | Neotrombidium |
| 2001 | Niphargus bulgaricus | Niphargus |
| 2012 | Niphargus turcicus | Niphargus |
| 1991 | Oecetis testacea orientalis | Oecetis |
| 2001 | Otostigmus beroni | Otostigmus |
| 1990 | Oxyethira josifovi | Oxyethira |
| 2004 | Paralaophonte livingstoni | Paralaophonte |
| 1996 | Paraphanolophus halffteri | Paraphanolophus |
| 2020 | Phasianus bulgaricus | Phasianus |
| 2008 | Pseudonychocamptus kolarovi | Pseudonychocamptus |
| 1999 | Regulus bulgaricus | Regulus |
| 1990 | Rhyacophila kumgangsanica | Rhyacophila |
| 2001 | Schizidium beroni | Schizidium |
| 1990 | Stactobia sujangsanica | Stactobia |
| 2000 | Trichoniscus garevi | Trichoniscus |
| 2002 | Trichoniscus petrovi | Trichoniscus |
| 2002 | Trichoniscus stoevi | Trichoniscus |
| 2002 | Trichosmaris papuana | Trichosmaris |