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
(AMBRUS 1974) and the Hortobágy National Park (AMBRUS 1978). Jenő Papp (curator of the Bakony Museum of Nature History in Zirc, later curator of Hymenoptera at the Hungarian National History Museum, Braconid specialist) published two papers on some sawflies of the Bakony Mountains (PAPP 1961 and 1962) describing a new color variety of Macrophya montana (Scopoli, 1763). With Zsolt Józan (teacher at Mernye elementary school, Aculeata specialist), they published the Hymenoptera species collected in Síkfökút by Malaise trap (PAPP and JÓZAN 1995). Lajos Zombori (1937 Szigetvár - , curator of Hymenoptera and assistant director of the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Fig. 19) was the first after Mocsáry who studied intensively the Symphyta fauna Fig. 19: Lajos Zombori of the Carpathian Basin with special focus on the sawfly-fauna of Hungary, Transylvania and Subcarpathia. Returning from England, where he worked as assistant of Robert Benson, he started the research of the systematics and the faunistics of the Hungarian sawflies. Beyond the Budapest collection, he identified and published the Zirc (Bakony Museum of Natural History) (ZOMBORI 1973a, 1978b, 1979a, 1980a, 1982b), the Gyöngyös (Mátra Museum) (ZOMBORI 1974C, 1979b) collections and the Dodero collection (depsoited in Genova) as well (ZOMBORI 1979C, 1980 b, 1984a, b, 1985a, 2008). His results were summarised in the Fauna Hungáriáé (MÓCZÁR and ZOMBORI 1973, ZOMBORI 1982a, 1990a), in the Check list of Symphyta of the Carpathian Basin (ZOMBORI 1974a, 1981a) and The history of Symphyta of the Carpathian Basin series (ZOMBORI 2003, ZOMBORI and ERMOLENKO 1997, 1999, 2001, ZOMBORI and PASCU 1998). He participated in the research programs of the Hungarian Natural History Museum to investigate the flora and fauna of the national parks and nature conservation areas: Bükk (231 Symphyta species, 1996a), Aggtelek (135 species, ZOMBORI 1999), Bares Native Juniper Woodland (45 species, ZOMBORI 1985b), Hortobágy (99 species, ZOMBORI 1981b), Kiskunság (148 species, ZOMBORI 1985C), Fertő-Hanság (108 species, ZOMBORI 2002) and Bátorliget (89 species, ZOMBORI 1990b). He published a series on the Symphyta fauna of his home-village Nagykovácsi reporting 131 species (ZOMBORI 1973b, 1975b, c). Furthermore he described 10 new species from the Carpathian Basin (see the list of sawfly species described from the Carpathian Basin). Werner Heinz Muche (1911 Radeberg - 1989 Radeberg) reported 2 sawfly species from Hungary that he collected in an entomological excursion organised by the Budapest Entomological Congress (MUCHE 1975). Attila Haris (1968 Kaposvár - ). I started the Symphyta research at the Keszthely University of Agriculture and completed my PhD. thesis on the ecology of wheat sawflies (Dolerus, Pachynematus spp.) under the supervision of Dr. János Szabolcs and Dr. Gyula Sáringer (HARIS 1992, 1994a, b, 1995). Later, I expanded my knowledge to
