Butterflies of Bulgaria

An illustrated compendium to the Bulgarian butterfly species, their taxonomy, distribution and bionomics...

— Investigations of butterflies in Bulgaria have been carried out for nearly 170 years. The rather detailed faunistic work ‘Die horizontale Verbreitung der Schmetterlinge in Bulgarien’ by Buresch & Tuleschkow (1929—1930) is quite out of date, and as far as it concerns the so called ‘common’ species totally incomplete. Several species were reported as ‘new’ for the Bulgarian fauna in the next 70 years and additional data about their distribution were accumulated for many others... [more]

History of research —
— Bioketches of people, their expeditions, collections and publications; important scientific societies, institutions and periodicals...

Systematics —
— Bulgarian butterfly species accounts, details on their taxonomy, distribution, flight-period, habitats, larval hostplants and more...

Bibliography —
— Currently containing references to 501 publications, published in the period of 1834—2006 by more than 170 authors...