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

chbeinii Frivaldszky, 1877 (preoc. by Klug); Cephuspulcher Tischbein, 1852; Tenthredo albopunctata Tischbein, 1852 = Tenthredopsis annuligera (Eversmann, 1847) and Macrophya ratzeburgii Tischbein, 1852 = Macrophya postica (Brullé, 1832). Gustav Mayr (1830 Wien - 1908 Wien, high school professor at Budapest) was the first entomologist who studied the Hymenoptera fauna of Transylvania. In his paper (MAYR 1853), he reported six, mostly common, Symphyta species. Joseph Etienne Giraud (1820 Briancon - 1877 Paris) contributed to our knowledge of the Symphyta fauna with the description of Cephus luteomarginatus Giraud, 1857 (= Cephus pulcher Tischbein, 1852) based on 2 male specimens sent by Mr. Kovács, collection manager of the Hungarian National Museum, Natural History. Leopold Anton Kirchner in his catalogue (KIRCHNER 1867) mentioned two Nematinae species described by Arnold Förster (1810 Aachen - 1884 Aachen) from Hungary, namely Nematus frivaldszky Förster and Nematus pyrosomus Förster. Förster never described these species (as it discussed in MOCSÁRY 1900) therefore these names are nomina nuda. In 1872, Ottó Herman (1835 Breznóbánya - Budapest 1914: naturalist, ethnographer, archeologist and politician, Fig. 4) published one paper on the Hymenoptera fauna of Mezőség discussing numerous sawfly species (HERMAN 1872 and MOCSÁRY 1900). János Frivaldszky (1822 Rajec - 1895 Budapest, entomologist, manager of the zoological collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Fig. 5) published a paper on the fauna of Máramaros (Transylvania) (FRIVALDSZKY 1871), Temes and Krassó (Transylvania) counties (FRIVALDSZKY 1876). Thirty-three Symphyta species were listed from Temes and Krassó counties (FRIVALDSZKY 1876) and 8 species from Máramaros county. He described Allantus nigrilabris Frivaldszky, 1871 (= Tenthredo vespa Retzius, 1783) from the Szemenik Hill and gave a new name for Tenthredo hungarica Tischbein, 1852 {Tenthredopsis tischbeini Frivaldszky, 1877) since this name had already been occupied by Klug. Károly Brancsik (1842 Óbeszterce - 1915 Trencsén, medical doctor and common health officer of Trencsén county, Fig. 6) reported numerous Symphyta species (BRANCSIK 1893) from the historical Trencsén vármegye (historical county around Trencsén in the Royal Hungary, now Trencin in Slovakia). Dr. Brancsik's entomological collection including Hymenoptera is deposited in Trencin museum (according to KOLESKA 1979) and few specimens were found in Budapest either. Only few, sporadic faunistic Hungarian records can be found in the monograph of Carl Gustav Brischke and Ernst Gustav Zaddach (BRISCHKE and ZADDACH Fig. 6: Károly Brancsik