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
Lwow, manager of Polish Forest Protection Research Institute and professor of Warsawa University of Life Sciences). Tomasz Huflejt (curator of Hymenoptera, Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa) reported 96 Symphyta species from the Polish Tatras (HUFLEJT 1976) and discussed the distribution and host plants of Cephus pulcher Tischb. in Poland (HUFLEJT 2007). In 1997, he summarized the faunistic data of Poland in a check list (in total 609 recorded species) containing numerous records from the Polish Carpathians (HUFLEJT 1997). Symphyta research in the Soviet and Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Basin (Kárpátalja, Subcarpathia) from 1920 The so called "Ukrainian Carpathian Mts." was partly Hungarian (MunkácsMukachevo and Ungvár-Uzhgorod region) and partly Polish territories in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Lwow-Lemberg and Sambor region). So, the earliest sawfly researches were done by Polish authors as it discussed in the entry titles "Polish Symphyta researches in East Galicia (Halics, Lodoméria and Beskid Mts.) between 1864 and 1918". Further sawfly data were recorded in Mocsáry's monographs (MOCSÁRY 1900) from the Hungarian part of Subcarpathia around Munkács (Mukachevo). After 1920, Gregor also studied the Symphyta fauna of Subcarpathia (GREGOR 1927). In that time, this area was Czehoslovak holding till the Soviet occupation. The earliest Ukrainian research started in the late fifties of the 20 TH century, in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union. Ivan Ivanovits Bokotey (1928 Drotnici - 2007 Ungvár (Uzhgorod), lecturer of zoology at the Uzhgorod University) started the investigation of the sawfly fauna of Subcarpathia and published 12 papers. He also described 2 new species. The name of Rhogogaster carpathica was published firstly in a proceeding of an entomological conference, unfortunately Bokotey only mentioned his new findings but did not provide any description. Rhogogaster carpathica was identified by Bokotey. ZHELOCHOVTSEV (1988) included this species in his key and as a result of this, the author of the species is Zhelochovtsev and not Bokotey Valeri Mikhailovich Ermolenko (1920 Sostka Sumskoi - 2006 Kiev, sawfly specialist of the Schmallhausen Institute, Kiev, Fig. 20) published 7 papers on the sawfly fauna of Subcarpathia and described 3 new species. He also wrote two books on Cimbicidae, Blasticotomidae, Argidae, Diprionidae, Tenthredinidae: Selandrinae and Dolerinae species of Ukraine outlining the biology and distribution of sawflies in Subcarpathia. Unfortunately, in his papers (similarly to those of Bokotey) we hardly find any specific data (names of localities) since he Fig. 20: Valeri Mikhailovich Ermolenko
