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

the whole Palaearctic and Oriental Tenthredinidae fauna. I elaborated the Nematinae and Dolerinae part of the Aggtelek and Fertő-Hanság National Parks (HARIS 1999, 2002) and reidentified the Hungarian (HARIS 2001b), and later the world Nematinae (HARIS 2003b) and Dolerinae collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. From 1995,1 started the research of the East-Palaearctic and from 1997, the Oriental sawflies (not detailed here) but I never neglected the Carpathian Basin fauna either. In 2000-2001,1 compiled the sawfly fauna-catalogue of Somogy county (HARIS 2001C) and between 2000 and 2002, I participated in the research of the Látrányi Puszta Nature Conservation Area (HARIS 2003). Between 1990 and 1992, I established the sawfly collection of the Somogy County Museum, Kaposvár (published only in 1998) (HARIS 1998). Dr. Lajos Zombori offered me the identification the Nematinae of the Zombori-Ermolenko sawfly collection from Subcarpathia that was published in 2001 (HARIS 2001a). In 3 of my papers (HARIS 1998a, 2001a, b), I gave the descriptions of 6 new species from the Carpathian Basin. Dolerus nigrominutus Haris, 1998, Pachynematus hungaricus Haris, 2001, Nematus flavominutissimus Haris, 2001 and Mesoneura nigrostigmata Haris, 2001 were described from Hungary, Pachynematus carpathiensis Haris, 2001 and Pristiphora hoverlaensis Haris, 2001 from Ukraine. In the present project, my responsibility is studying the Budapest and the other Hungarian collections. During this research, huge amount of new sawfly records were presented from the various areas of the Carpathian Basin, mainly from Hungary, Transylvania (Romania) and Subcarpathia (Ukraine) and smaller amount from Slovakia. Symphyta research in the Polish part of the Carpathian Basin from 1918 Stanislaw Kapuscinski (1910 Lwow - 1991 Krakow, professor of the Agriculture and Forestry Department of Jagelló University in Krakow, later head of the Krakow Institue of Forestry) studied gall-making insects (KAPUSCINSKI 1936) and reported 12 Tenthredinidae (Trichiocampus, Pontania, Phyllocolpa and Euura spp.) species from the Polish Tatras. Jan Noskiewicz (1890 Sanok - 1963 Warsaw, librarian of Dzieduszycki Museum at Lemberg-Lwow, later professor of zoogeography at Wroclaw University, bee specialist) recorded three sawfly species from Galicia (NOSKIEWICZ 1924). Jerzy Obarski published a four papers series on the sawfly fauna of Poland providing exact faunistic data (place and time of captures, number and sexes of the collected specimens). In this series, he reported 22 species from the Carpathian Basin, most of them from the Polish Tatras and few species from Halics-Galicia (OBARSKI 1931a, b, c, 1933). Maria Beiger (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu) studied the mining sawflies of Poland (Beiger, 1959) with special focus on the fauna of the Tatra National Park (BEIGER 1970, 1979 and 1981). In 1982, she summarised her results in a nearly 100 pages monograph, titled Owady Minujace Polski, czesc 1, Blonkówki, Hymenoptera (Mining Insects of Poland, Part 1, Sawflies, Hymenoptera) in that she discussed the morphology, biology, life history and distribution of mining sawflies of genera Heterarthrus, Messa, Scolioneura, Fenusa, Profenusa, Hintára, Parna, Fenella, Metallus and Pseudodineura and also provided the description of their mines. In this work, she also summarised the results of other Polish specialists (MICHALSKA 1981a, b, PIERONEK 1962 and NUNBERG 1947, 1948) so, in her paper we may find data on the mining sawflies published by Zofia Michalska (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza), Barbara Pieronek (Akadémia Pedagogiczna im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie, Wydzial Geograficzno-Biologiczny, Instytut Biologii) and Marian Nunberg (1896 Lwow - 1986