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

reported the localities like Ukrainian Carpathians, Zakarpatskaya oblast but never mentioned the names of the villages or towns where the sawflies were collected. His large personal sawfly-collection was donated to the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. His types are preserved in Schmallhausen Institute, Kiev. Symphyta researches in Czechoslovakia, in Slovakia and in the Czech part of the Carpathian Basin from 1918 Sawfly research in Czechoslovakia In the first Czechoslovak republic (1918-1939), several Czech entomologists studied the Symphyta fauna of Slovakia and eastern Moravia. Emil Bayer (1875 Jicin - 1947 Brno, professor of zoology at the Agricultural University in Brno) was gall-specialist. He reported firstly the occurrence of the arctoalpine Pontania reticulatae species in the Tatra Mts in 1932. Eduard Baudys (1886 Horice - 1968 Brno, professor of zoology at the Agricultural University in Brno, phytopathologist and gall specialist) published records of numerous gall-making sawflies of genera Hoplocampoides, Euura, Pontania and Phyllocolpa from Slovakia and Moravia. Franitsek Gregor (1896 Ubusin -1942 Mathausen, middle school teacher) was the single hymnenopterologist who studied intensively the sawflies in the first Czechoslovak republic. In the fourties, Gregor and Leontin Bat'a (1885-1952, Czech hymenopterologist and lepidopterologist) summarized all available faunistic data on Symphyta of Czechoslovakia and listed 66 species from Slovakia (mostly indefinite records: "Slovakia") (GREGOR BAÍ'A 1940, 1941, 1942). Most of their sawfly records came from the Czech Republic that contains data including the Czech Carpathian Basin (Eastern Moravia) (GREGOR BAÍ'A 1940, 1941, 1942). Gregor investigated the Symphyta fauna of Subcarpathia either (GREGOR 1927). After the World War Two several Slovak and Czech specialists published sawflyrecords from Slovakia V. Greco (1966) published the first indefinite record and later Blahutiak (1991) the first exact record a widely distributed sawfly Hoplocampa flava from Slovakia. Jan Patocka (professor, Lepidoptera specialist from Zvolen), studied the insects associated with oaks (with main focus on Lepidopera) (PATOCKA et al. 1962). This study contains the first Slovak records of two rare sawflies, namely Apethymus cerris and Periclista albipennis. Emil Marie Hachler (1910 Kyjov -1996 Hodonin) summarized the knowledge on European Xiphydriidae and Siricidae (HACHLER 1944, 1949) and recorded the occurrence of Tremex fuscicornis firstly in Slovakia (without exact locality data). Karel Benes (1938 Praha - , secundary school teacher, Fig. 21) remarkably widened our knowledge on the Symphyta fauna of Central Europe. His systematic studies contain several faunistic records from the Tatras Mts and north Slovakia (BENES 1962, 1967, 1975). In 1961, he described a new species: Rhadinoceraea bensoni and reported this species from Murán (Slovakia) (BENES 1961). In the checklist of Czechoslovak Symphyta, Benes listed 335 species from Slovakia (BENES 1989). In this checklist, he included the data of Leighton H. Woollatt's expedition in the High Tatras Mts in 1970 (the material was deposited in Hope Museum, Oxford). Zdenék Pádr (1923 - Praha, 1997, Czeh biochemist, Fig. 22) recorded 23 Symphyta species first in Slovakia (Pádr 1990). With Zdenék Boucek (1924 Hradec Králové -