Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv Volume 5 December 2020 REGIONAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM – PLOVDIV UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV PUBLISHING HOUSE ii International Standard Serial Number Online ISSN 2534-9635; Print ISSN 2534-9627 Bulletin of the Natural History Museum – Plovdiv“ (Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Plovdiv) is the official scientific bulletin of the Natural History Museum – Plovdiv, published by Plovdiv University Press. The journal accepts submissions of original studies in the field of paleontology, natural history, geology and speleology, zoology, botany, ecology, biogeography, museology, history of natural studies, information about museum collections, etc. The official language of the journal is English. Exceptions are possible, certain manuscript may be published in Bulgarian language, with extensive abstract in English. Periodicity: Annually – one issue per year (December). Type: Open Access, hard copy and electronically. Free of charge to publish. About the Journal In 1970, the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv issues Volume 1 of the journal "Bulletin of the Natural Science Museum Plovdiv”. In 1973 Volume 2 was released. Before the release of the independent journal of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv, researchers at the museum published their articles in "Annuals of the Museums in the Plovdiv Region" and from 1975 in "Bulletin of the museums in Southern Bulgaria", which was published until 1995 (a total of 21 volumes). With the creation of the Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv, the Regional Museum of Natural History - Plovdiv resumed issuing its scientific journal. In the magazine accepted for posting short messages (up to 4 pages), original research papers (from 4 to 10 pages) and review articles (over 10 pages) in the above mentioned fields and shaped according to the instructions for authors. The logo of the journal is the paleoendemic beetle Rhodopaea angelovi Gruev & Tomov, 19681, known only from a small area in the Rhodope Mountains, south of Plovdiv. The species is named after Professor Emeritus Pavel Angelov, one the first directors of the museum, who collected the type specimens. From the Editorial Board 1 Gruev B., V. Tomov. 1968. A new genus and species Rhodopaea angelovi gen. et sp. n. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Bulgaria. Rev. Ent. URSS, XLVII(3):553-555 (in Russian with English summary). iii Editorial Board Editor-In-Chief: Chief Assist. Prof. Ognyan Todorov, PhD (Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Co-Editor-In-Chief: Assoc. Prof. Ivelin Mollov, PhD (University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation - Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Editorial Secretary: Gergana Kicheva (Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Associate Editors: Prof. Dimitar Bechev, DSc (University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Zoology - Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Prof. Ruslan Kostov, DSc (University of Mining and Geology - Sofia, Bulgaria) Prof. Radoslav Andreev, PhD (Agricultural University - Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Assoc. Prof. Dilian Georgiev, DSc (University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation - Plovdiv; Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv, Bulgaria) Assoc. Prof. Toshko Liubomirov, PhD (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Sofia, Bulgaria) Contact Publisher Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv University of Plovdiv Publishing House 34 Hrysto G. Danov Str., Plovdiv 4000, 24 Tsar Assen Str., 4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA BULGARIA; Phone: +359 32 626683; E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://rnhm.org/en/ Open Access Policy Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Open Access in journal publishing means: * Direct, barrier-free, online dissemination of scientific results at no charge for readers Authors retain the copyright of their articles, * Open Access papers may be copied, downloaded, and used for text- and data-mining purposes, provided that such uses are fully attributed on a non-commercial basis, * High visibility of the work – anyone can read your article at no charge, * Higher citation rates due to higher visibility, * Quick publishing as pre-prints published immediately upon acceptance, * Articles are archived and searched through several major OA repositories Peer review process All articles included in “Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv” are peer reviewed. Submitted manuscripts are sent to two or three independent peer reviewers, unless they are either out of scope or below threshold for the journal. These manuscripts will generally be reviewed by experts with the aim of reaching a first decision as soon as possible. The journal uses the double anonymity standard for the peer-review process. Abstracting & Coverage - Index Coupernicus (ICv2019= 77.05) - Academic Research Index (Research Bible) - Academic Keys - Scientific Indexing Services - CiteFactor - Genamics JournalSeek - InfoBASE Index - Google Scholar Search Engine and others. License: Bulletin of the Natural History Museum – Plovdiv 2020, Volume 5 - Contents Research Articles Late Pleistocene Avifauna of the Pešturina Cave (Nišava District, SE Serbia) and its Implications for Late Pleistocene Refugia in the Central Balkans Zlatozar N. Boev, Stefan Milošević ..............................................................................................1-14 New Data on the Fauna of the Late Antiquity Northern Fortification Walls of Serdica (3rd-6th century A.D.) from Building Excavations on Exarch Joseph Street (Sofia, Bulgaria) Zlatozar N. Boev .........................................................................................................................15-23 A Little Dabbling Duck (Anatini Vigors, 1825 – Anseriformes Wagler, 1831) from the Late Miocene of Kremikovtsi (Bulgaria) Zlatozar N. Boev ......................................................................................................................... 25-31 A New Middle Miocene Starling (Sturnidae Rafinesque, 1815) from Kardam (NE Bulgaria) Zlatozar N. Boev ........................................................................................................................ 33-41 Avian Remains from the Thracian Trade Settlement Pistiros(5–2 c. BC) near Vetren, Pazardzhik Province (SC Bulgaria) Zlatozar N. Boev, Sue Stallibrass ...............................................................................................43-47 Short notes Odontomyia annulata (Diptera, Stratiomyidae), New Record for the Fauna of Greece Sotiris Alexiou ...................................................................................................................49-50 Miscellaneous Corrigendum върху статията “Националният природонаучен музей при Българскатаакадемия на науките – анализ на съвременното състояние,проблемите и насоките за развитие (Поглед отвътре)”с автор Златозар Н. Боев .........................................................................................51-52 Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Plovdiv, 2020, vol. 5: 1-14 Late Pleistocene Avifauna of the Pešturina Cave (Nišava District, SE Serbia) and its Implications for Late Pleistocene Refugia in the Central Balkans 1*, 2 Zlatozar N. Boev Stefan Milošević 1 - National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Blvd. Tsar Osvoboditel, 1000 Sofia, BULGARIA 2 - University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Čika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Belgrade, SERBIA *Corresponding author: [email protected]; [email protected] Abstract. Avian remains presented here were collected from the deposits spanning between late MIS 5 to 3, and give a rare opportunity to observe Last Interglacial/Last Glacial avian succession in the Central Balkans. The Late Pleistocene avifauna from Pešturina cave (Niš District, SE Serbia), comprises 26 taxa from 18 families and 10 orders, 16 of which are reported for the first time from Pleistocene deposits of the Central Balkans. Today, these species live in a variety of habitats – open grassland, forest, rocky, and aquatic habitats. The species from forest habitat were the most abundant. All species (еxcept black grouse) are present in the country’s modern avifauna. The cave provides some examples of “mixed” Pleistocene avifaunas, including species both of Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean/temperate present day distribution. The occurrence of rock sparrow marks one of the northernmost Pleistocene ones in Europe so far, while presence of other species is suggestive for complex mosaic ecosystems, which probably characterized Last Glacial landscapes in the Central Balkans, at least until the LGM. Key words: Quaternary/Late Pleistocene birds, Late Pleistocene refugia, Central Balkans, avian paleoecology, avian taphonomy, avian zoogeography. Introduction present the uncovered avifauna and its nature Paleontological studies, based on avifaunal of accumulation. Since studied material comes remains, are important for understanding the from an archaeological site, the paleoecological changes in paleoecological settings of the reconstruction is important in assessing the archaeological/paleontological sites. range of habitats also available to Paleolithic Quaternary record of birds on the Balkan humans – late Neanderthals