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
Hungarian Landowners, founded in 1891), Növényvédelem (Plant Protection, founded first in 1925 and reestablished in 1965) and Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica (founded in 1966). Géza Horváth (1847 Csecs - 1937 Budapest, member of the Hung. Acad. Sci, founder of the National Phyloxera Research Station) reported firstly the harm caused by larvae of Athalia rosae L. (Horváth, 1893) on rape. József Jablonowski (1863 Szepesolaszi - 1943 Budapest, Hungarian Royal Entomological Research Station) published two papers on the life history and control of the turnip sawfly {Athalia rosae L.) (JABLONOWSKI 1893, 1924) and other two papers on the wheat stem sawfly (Cephus pygmaeus L.) (JABLONOWSKI 1896, 1912). He also studied the biology of Janus compressus F. (JABLONOWSKI 1904). In 1900, August Langhoffer (1861 - 1940, professor of zoology at the University of Zagreb, Diptera specialist) published the list of insect pests of Croatian and Slavonian forests including few Symphyta species (LANGHOFFER 1900). Géza Zilahi-Sebess (1905 Marosugra - 1960 Debrecen, zoologist, professor of the Debrecen University of Sciences) studied the life history and biology of Pristiphora pallipes Lep. (valid name: P. appendiculata Htg.) (ZILAHI-SEBESS 1946, 1950). Gusztáv Szelényi (1904 Késmárk - 1982 Budapest, Chalcididae specialist, professor of the Budapest University of Agriculture, president of the Hungarian Entomological Society) published a single paper on damages caused by Athalia rosae (SZELÉNYI 1943). Márton Aczél (1906 Budapest - 1958 Tucuman (Argentina), Diptera specialist, professor of the Tucuman Univesity Argentina) published 9 papers on the life history and control of the the fruit sawflies (Hoplocampa spp.) between 1938 and 1942 (ACZÉL 1938a, b, 1939a, b, 1940a, b, 1941a, b, 1942). Gábor Reichart (1917 Szeged - 1979 Budapest, Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) studied the damages caused by Hoplocampa brevis Kl. (REICHART 1952, 1953). József Kolonits (Forestry Research Institute) studied the biology and life history of the European pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer Geoffr.) (KOLONITS 1965). Gyula Sáringer (1928 Magyarszerdahely, - rector, professor emeritius at Keszthely University of Agriculture (Georgicon), member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fig. 25) studied the diapause and the photoperiodic effects in 20 different insect pests in the Laboratory of Experimental Ecology at Keszthely. He spent 40 years on research of Athalia rosae L. (SÁRINGER 1957a, b, 1958a, 1961b, 1962a, b, c, 1964a, b, 1967a, b, 1974, 1976a, b, 1980, 1983a, b, 1989, SÁRINGER and KACSÓ 1963, SÁRINGER et al. 1996, SÁRINGER et al. 2003) and Athalia ancilla Serv. (=A. glabricollis Ths.) (SÁRINGER 1958b, 1961a, 1966, 1967b, 1988) investigating Fig. 25: Gyula Sáringer me ^ r diapauses, photoperiodic sensitivi-
