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
by his students from various parts of the historical Hungary (VANGEL 1905). In this time, he was the professor of nature history at the Teachers College in Budapest. His students (like Miklós Móczár, will be discussed later) had to prepare and submit a small insect collection. These collections were deposited in the college and their identifications were reviewed by the experts of the Natural History Department of the Hungarian National Museum (later Hungarian Natural History Museum). The identifications of sawflies, bees and wasps were reviewed by Sándor Mocsáry. József Kiss and Károly Olasz studied the insect fauna of Arva Polhora and Babiurga (Oravská Polhora and Babia hora Mt., Slovakia) recording two Siricidae species (Kiss and OLASZ 1907). Bertalan Schin studied the insect Fig. 12: Zoltán Szilády fau , na of Huszt < now ^^j 11 Ukraine) and its environment publishing 17 Symphyta species (SCHIN 1909). Schin (like Móczár and Henter) was also a student of Jenő Vángel at the Pedagogicum in Budapest (discussed earlier). In the summer holiday of the 1907 school year, he collected the published Diptera and Hymenoptera species. The identification was completed partly by the author and partly by Sándor Mocsáry (curator of Hymenoptera at the entomological collection of the Hungarian National Museum). Zoltán Szilády (1878 Budapest - 1947 Grosspösna, teacher of nature history at Bethlen College in Nagyenyed (now Aiud) between 1902 and 1920, curator and later honorary director of the Hungarian Natural History Museum between 1921 and 1934, Diptera specialist, science historian, Fig. 12). In two of his papers, (SZILÁDY 1906 and 1914), he discussed the Hungarian (mainly Transylvanian) sawfly fauna. In his monograph on Symphyta of Central Europe (ENSLIN 1918), Eduard Enslin (1879 Nürnberg - 1970 Nürnberg) compilled the records of the rarest species (61 species from Hungary and 17 species from Croatia) that originally published in the papers of Mocsáry and Konow, completed with the description of Pontania hungarica Enslin, 1918 ( = Pontania viminalis (Linnaeus, 1758). Endre Zilahi-Kiss (1873 Zilah - 1931 Szilágycseh, entomologist, doctor of medicine) published two papers on the insect fauna of Szilágy county (ZILAHI-KISS 1904) and also on the various parts of Transylvania (ZILAHI-KISS 1915) discussing numerous rare species. Furthermore he described three new colour variation of sawflies from Transylvania and Croatia (ZILAHI KISS 1927). Miklós Móczár (1884 Kiskunfélegyháza - 1971 Budapest, director of Teachers College at Jászberény, bee specialist, Fig. 13) and Henter Pál a class mate of Mikós Móczár at Teachers College at Budapest (called Pedagogicum), published records of 63 Symphyta species from the various regions of Hungary collected by the authors, László Sztancsik and Jenő Zepeniág (MÓCZÁR and HENTER 1907), the identifications of the young students were revised by Sándor Mocsáry. In 1911, he reported 15, mostly fre-
