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

Fig. 21: Karel Bones (left) and M. Kraus (right) Czech hymenopterologist), he published the first and still the only identification key for the Symphyta of Czechoslovakia (Boucek and Pádr 1957). This key is still useful for the identification of most genera and about 70% of the species of the North Carpathian Basin. Pádr was successful collector of Symphyta: his large collection is divided into the collections of several museums. The sawflies collected by Pádr in Slovakia were deposited in the Bratislava and Martin museums (Slovakia). Sylvia Siekel'ová, born Roncheti (1952 Povazská Bystrica - ) elaborated the Symphyta assemblages in several nature protection areas of Slovakia in her master and doctoral thesis (RONCHETI 1975, 1977). Later, she investigated the sawfly fauna of two valleys in the Vel'ká Fatra Mts that counted 66 species (SIEKEI'OVÁ 1980). Adela Beláková (1932 Hornany - , associated professor of entomology at Comenius University, Bratislava) reported 17 species from the Rozsutec Mt. national nature reserve in the Malá Fatra Mts (BELÁKOVÁ 1981). Fig. 22: Zdenék Pádr