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. 24: Ion Draghia and Xenia Scobiola-Palade quality genitalia drawings as well. She also published three papers on sawfly pests of forests: one on leaf- miner sawflies, one on the sawflies of pine and fir forests and finally one paper on the sawfly fauna of alder, willow and poplar trees (SCOBIOLA 1974, 1976b, 1977). She studied the sawfly fauna of Vrancea county and reported 68 species (SCOBIOLA-PALADE 1976a) and the Vaskapu area (Irongate, Portile de Fier), South-Eastern entrance of the Carpathian Basin, listing 55 species. With coauthorship of Aurelian Popescu-Gorj (19141997) she completed the catalogue of Tenthredinoidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Sphecoidea and Pompiloidea in Roma-nia (SCOBIOLA-PALADE and POPESCU-GORJ 1967) providing detailed records on 236 Symphyta species. Her main works were the two book-sized monographs of the Romanian Symphyta in which she provided descriptions and keys for the species and also the distribution data of rare and sporadic sawflies (SCOBIOLA-PALADE 1978, 1981). Her works based on personal collectings, the material of the natural history collections in Romania and she visited twice Budapest (in the early 70-es) to study the Transylvanian sawfly collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum as well. C. Podoleanu (entomologist at Natural History Museum Piatra Neamt) studied the sawfly fauna of Montana Cuprinsa (Neamt county) recording 33 (PODOLEANU 1977) and later 22 sawfly species (PODOLEANU 1979). Mariana Pascu (curator of Hymenoptera, Brukenthal Museum Nagyszeben-Sibiu) published 3 papers on Symphyta (PASCU 1978, 1982, 1983). In 1978, she completed the Xyphidridae, Siricidae, Cephidae, Argidae, Cimbicidae and Diprionidae catalogue of the Brukenthal Museum. In this paper, 60 species were recorded mainly from Transylvania. In 1982, she continued it with the Megalodontesidae and Pamphillidae species publishing further 21 species. In 1983, she studied the Rolf Weyrauch and Eckbert Schneider Symphyta collection deposited in the Brukenthal Museum listing 189 specimens of 78 species. Recently Maria Apetrei published 3 papers on the sawflies of Neamt county (APETREI 1992) the Békás mountain-pass (Békás szoros, Cheile Bicazului) (APETREI 1993) and Fehérmező (Poiana Alba) (APETREI 1996). Lothar Zirngiebl (1902 Freising - 1973 Hildesheim) described a new variety: Allantus costatus var. obscurus Zirngiebl, 1937 (= Tenthredo costata Klug, 1817) from Herkulesbad (Transylvania) (ZIRNGIEBL 1937) and Robert Bernard Benson (1904 London - 1967 London, curator of Symphyta, British Museum, Natural History) described Abia plana Benson, 1954 (= Abia fulgens Zaddach, 1863) from the Retyezát Mountains (Transylvania) (BENSON 1954).