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

Fig. 8: Friedrich Wilhelm Konow Sándor (Alexander) Mocsáry (1841 Nagyvárad (Oradea) - 1915 Budapest, royal councellor, director of the zoological department of the Hungarian National Museum and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fig. 9) was the first Hungarian specialist of Hymenoptera. He studied all Aculeata and Symphyta groups of the world. His faunistic works contained 7 papers on the Hymenoptera fauna of Budapest (MOCSÁRY 1879), Zólyom and Liptó counties (MOCSÁRY 1878), Transsylvania (MOCSÁRY 1883 and 1874), Zemplén and Ung counties (MOCSÁRY 1875), Bihar and Hajdú counties (MOCSÁRY 1876) and Temes county (MOCSÁRY 1879). He also described 25 new species from the Royal Hungary, 23 of them from the Carpathian Basin. In the high number of reported species (processed in the faunistic part of this paper), the following findings are the most interesting: Dolerus pachycerus from Homonna, Hylotoma thoracica var. pleuritica from Sashegy, Lipótvölgy, Nagyvárad, Fácános and Mehádia, Arge frivaldszkyi, Schizocera vittata and Schizocera scutellaris from Budapest, Dolerus thoracicus from Hátszeg, Dolerus anticus from Nagyvárad and Tenthredo sabariensis from Szombathely. In 1897, he completed the Hymenoptera part of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé. This monograph comprised the results of the zoological researches and all available faunistic data of rare and sporadic species from the Royal Hungary, issued for the celebration of the millennium of the establishment of Hungary. In this monograph, he listed in total 438 Symphyta species, dominantly from the Carpathian Basin (some places of capture were from Dalmatia). William Forsell Kirby (1844 Leicester - 1904 London) also described one species, namely Cephus mocsáryi Kirby, 1882 (valid name: Trachelus troglodyta F.) from Hungary in his monograph titled: List of Hymenoptera with descriptions and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum (KIRBY 1882). Richard von Stein described one species, namely Tenthredopsis opacipleuris Stein 1884 (valid name: Fig. 9: Sándor Mocsáry