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

when the paleontological collection seriously hurt by a bomb-incident. Gusztáv Moesz (1873 Körmöcbánya (Kremnica, Slovakia) - 1946 Budapest, botanist, mycologists, head of the Department of Botany of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Fig. 17) published the first monograph on the galls of the Royal Hungary discussing the distribution of eleven gall-making Symphyta species (MOESZ 1938). He also studied the large gall collection of Győző Szépligeti (MOESZ 1913). Beyond the cecidological works of Moesz, C. Heinrich published few Symphyta galls around NagyszebenHermannstadt (Sibiu) in Transylvania (HEINRICH 1916). Géza Bálás of Sipek (1914 Szatmárnémeti - 1987 Budapest, professor of the Department of Entomology at the Hungarian Academy of Horticulture) continued the gall-research Fig. 16: Sándor Pongrácz of Hungary and published high number of new data in the monograph titled "Pótlások Magyarország gubacsaihoz {Additions to the Galls of Hungary)" (BÁLÁS 1941b). He also investigated the galls of Komarom county (BÁLÁS 1941a, 1943). In 1941, he had chance to study the Transylvanian galls. He also published a series of papers on the gallfauna of the Hungarian gardens. In the second part of this series, he discussed few Symphyta galls (BÁLÁS 1940). Between 1938 and 1943, the very best and well known zoologists and entomoloigsts investigated Transylvania and the Highlands such as Imre Loksa, Zoltán Kaszab, Miklós and László Móczár, Endre Dudich, Vilmos Székessy and Géza Bálás etc. Based on these intensive researches, high number of sawflies was reported mainly from Transylvania and also from Kassa (Kosice) and Bars county (MÓCZÁR 1941a, b, 1943, 1947a, b, BÁLÁS 1941c, 1943). Due to these intensive fauna research, numerous very rare species were captured this time, for instance, the unique specimen of Urocerus fantoma F. from Nagysalló (Tekovské Luzany) collected in 1943. László Móczár (1914 Kiskunfélegyháza - son of Mikós Móczár (discussed above), professor of zoology at Attila József University of Sciences Szeged). His first paper, where sawflies were menGusztáv Moesz