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. 15: Lujza Pillich (left) Edward Lubicz-Niezabitowski (1875 Bugaj w Wielkopolsce - 1946 Poznan, professor of Poznan University later director of the Natural History Museum in Poznan) described three species from Galicia and Bucovina namely Allantus galiciensis Niezabitowski, 1899 = Tenthredo flaveola (Gmelin, 1790), Taxonus alboscutellatus Niezabitowski 1899 and Tomostethus testaceus Niezabitowski, 1899 = Hoplocampa flava (Linnaeus, 1761). Sawfly species recorded from Galicia were published in two monographs (Niezabitowsky 1897 and 1899). Antoni Wierzejski (1842 Skala na Podolu - 1916 Krakow, professor of zoology at Jagelló University, Krakow) listed numerous sawfly species from Galicia and the Polish Tatras (without exact data on collecting localities) (WIERZEJSKI 1868). Symphyta research in the successors of the Royal Hungary Hungarian Symphyta research from 1920 In 1933, the Hungarian Natural History Museum separated from the Hungarian National Museum although it still worked under its supervision. The other important historic event was the establishment of the Hungarian Plant Protection Service (Magyar Növényvédelmi Szolgálat) and its countrywide network in 1932 that also gave place for Symphyta research. Finally, in 1923, the name of the entomological journal: Rovartani Lapok changed to Folia entomologica hungarica and in 1938, the Fragmenta Faunistica Hungarica was founded. Sándor Pongrácz (1887 Budapest - 1945 Budapest, entomologist, paleontologist and general director of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Fig. 16) described the one known fossil Symphyta species of the Carpathian Basin, namely Protenthredo transylvanicus Pongrácz, 1928 from the Transylvanian Upper Miocene. The type was lost, probably during the Soviet siege of Budapest in the 1956 anticommunist revolution