Ladislav Roller - Attila Haris - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research - Natura Somogyiensis 11. (Kaposvár, 2008)
History of the Symphyta research in the Carpathian Basin
new species from Royal Hungary. These sawflies were purchased from Gustav Dahl, a salesman and entomologist from Vienna. Tenthredo dahlii Klug, 1817, described from the historical Hungary, was dedicated to him. Beyond the description of the new species, he also mentioned the occurrence of Tenthredo vespiformis Schrank, 1781 from Hungary (as "Tenthredo (Allantus) pallicornis"). Unfortunately, the localities of the newly described sawflies were indicated like "Dahl, Ungarn", neglecting to name the exact places of capture. From the second half of the 19 th century, Symphyta research became more intensive. Not only Hungarian, but Austrian, German, French, and even English specialists Fi & 5: János Fri ™ldszky researched the sawfly fauna of Hungary. Nineteen years after the 1848 revolutions (in Vienna and Budapest), the situation was consolidated. Austria and Hungary were officially united and formed the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1867. In this time, János Frivaldszky established the world-famous entomological collection of the Hungarian National Museum and purchased the Koy collection from the 18 th century. In 1883, Ernő Kaufman started the first entomological journal, Rovarászati lapok (Entomological Journal), but it did not live even last for a year. One year later, in 1884, Géza Horváth started the second periodical called Rovartani Lapok (Journal of Entomology) that is now the Folia entomologica hungarica. In 1880, the Országos Phyloxéra Kísérleti Állomás (National Phyloxera Research Station) was founded. It was the predecessor of the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Different scientific societies and associations provided a place for the local entomological research, like the Erdélyi Múzeumi Egylet (Association of Transylvanian Museums) founded in 1859, the Magyar Természettudományi Társulat és Magyar Orvosok és Természetvizsgálók Vándorgyűlései (Annual Assemblies of the Hungarian Society of Nature Scientist and Medical Doctors) founded in 1841 or the Selmecbányái Gyógyászati és Természettudományi Egyesület (Selmecbánya Society of Medical and Nature Sicences) founded around 1870. Ottó Herman established the journal Természetrajzi Füzetek (Journal of Natural History). In this time, several museums were established in the country: in 1879, the Szeged Municipal Museum, in 1882, the Carpathian Museum at Poprad, in 1889, the Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica) Museum and in 1887 and the Mátra Museum at Gyöngyös. The bases of the Natural History Department of Brukenthal Museum (Nagyszeben, Sibiu) were laid in 1849, through the foundation of the Transylvanian Society of Natural Sciences (Siebenbürgischer Vérein fur Naturwissenschaften, Erdélyi Természettudományi Egyesület, 1849-1949). Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (1813 Eutin - 1883 Eutin) described four new species from Hungary (Tischbein, 1852): Tenthredo hungarica Tischbein, 1852 = T. tis-
