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. 10: Kornél Chyzer Tenthredopsis tarsata F.) from Hungary (STEIN 1884). Emil Malesevics (1858 Székesfehérvár - 1911 Losonc (Lucenec), grammar school teacher) reported 32 sawfly species from Losonc (Lucenec) (MALESEVICS 1892). Imre Vellay (1850-1898, abstractor of the Szeged Town Council, later scientific assistant at the Budapest Entomological Institute) published a series on the fauna of the environment of Szeged. In the second part of this paper, he discussed the Hymenoptera including 36 common and frequent Symphyta species (VELLAY 1899). In the early 20 TH century, the most important event in the entomological history was the establishment of the Hungarian Entomological Society (Magyar Rovartani Társaság) in 1910. In this time, numerous museums were founded in the countryside, for instance in Pécs, Kaposvár, Bártfa (Bard ej ov) and in Liptószentmiklós (Liptovsky Mikulás). The cultural and scientific life (including the Symphyta research) was still active and very vivid till the tragic events of the First World War. Tivadar Ortvay (1843 Csíklovabánya (now Ciclova Montana, Transylvania) - 1916 Budapest, catholic priest, historian, archeologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) published one paper on the fauna and zoogeography of the historical Pozsony vármegye (historical county around Bratislava in the Royal Hungary) (ORTVAY 1902) discussing 17 sawfly species. Kornél Chyzer (1836 Bártfa (now Bardejov, Slovakia) - 1909 Budapest, doctor of medicine, botanist and zoologist, Fig. 10) investigated the Hymenoptera fauna of Zemplén historical county (CHYZER 1901). His collection was deposited in the Carpathian Museum at Poprad. Unfortunately this collection was lost. Jenő Vángel (1864 Perkáta - 1918 Budapest, zoologist, professor of the Budapest University of Sciences, later director of the Teachers College of Budapest, called "Pedagogicum", Fig. 11) published the list of collected insects Fig. 11: Jenő Vángel
