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

tioned, was the "Data to the Hymenoptera-fauna of Kőszeg mountains" (MÓCZÁR 1938) recording 86 sawfly species. Between 1940 and 1943, he intensively studied the sawfly fauna of Kassa (Kosice), (44 sawfly species, MÓCZÁR 1941), and Transylvania (76 sawfly species published in 1947). He elaborated the Győrfi and Dudich collections from Bars county (14 sawfly species) (MÓCZÁR 1947a). In two papers of his series titled Hymenopterológiai jegyzetek 3 és 4 (Hymenopterological records 3 and 4) he provided further valuable data of some rare and sporadic sawfly species from Hungary and Transylvania (MÓCZÁR 1941b and 1943). In 1953, he published the list of Hymenoptera of the Bátorliget Nature Conservation Area (MÓCZÁR 1953). With coauthorship of Lajos Zombori, they wrote the first part of Tenthredinoidea in the Fauna Hungáriáé series discussing the Pamphillidae, Megalodontidae (Megalodontesidae), Siricidae, Cephidae, Argidae, Blasticotomidae, Cimbicidae and Diprionidae species of Hungary and the Carpathian Basin (MÓCZÁR and ZOMBORI 1973). In the communist era, Hungary existed under the pressure of the Soviet occupation. In this time, the most important event was the establishment of the first Natural History Museum in the countryside, in Zirc in 1972 that named Bakony Természettudományi Múzeum (Bakony Museum of Natural History, named after the Bakony Mts., north to Lake Balaton). In 1952, started the scientific journal titled Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae that gave place entomotaxonomic publications. From 1966, Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica, the English language journal of applied entomology appears. With the end of the communist era, the international cooperation and common research programs became again intensive (ZOMBORI and ERMOLENKO 1997, 1999, 2001, ZOMBORI and PASCU 2003). János Győrfi (1905 Keszthely - 1966 Sopron, professor of Sopron University of Forestry, Department of Forest Protection, Fig. 18) wrote two monographs: one on the Siricid wasps (GYŐRFI 1940) and one on the pine sawflies (Diprionidae) (GYÖRFI 1957). In these monographs, he studied the economic significance of the sawfly pests, discussing their control and provided valuable data on the distribution of rare Diprionid sawflies like Gilpina pallida Kl., Gilpina socia Kl. and Microdiprion pallipes Fal. Béla Ambrus (1909 Bellus - 1979 Budapest, director of the Pesterzsébet Elementary School and school-inspector) investigated the gall fauna of Hungary including sawflies of the Hungarian national parks as well. In these papers, he listed the gall-inducing sawflies of Sopron area (AMBRUS 1958), the Kámon Arboretum (AMBRUS 1960), Szeged Tisza part (banks of River Theis) (AMBRUS 1962), Vendvidék (AMBRUS 1963), the Bakony Mountains (AMBRUS 1964 a,b,c, 1968 and 1978), Vácrátót Botanic Garden (AMBRUS 1971a), Tiszakürt and Tiszaigar Botanic Gardens (AMBRUS 1971b), Alcsut Arboretum János Győrfi