Ladislav Roller - Attila Haris - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research - Natura Somogyiensis 11. (Kaposvár, 2008)

Sawfly collections in and around the Carpathian Basin

Zirc, Bakony Natural HistoryMuseum The museum was founded in 1972; previously it was the Natural History Department of the Veszprém County Museum. The approximately 6,000 sawfly specimens are nearly in 100 % identified. All Symphyta species were collected in the Bakony Mountains. The Hymenoptera collection was established by Jenő Papp and Sándor Tóth and the total sawfly collection was published by Lajos Zombori. Kaposvár, Somogy County Museum The museum was founded in 1909 and the natural history department was re-established by Levente Ábrahám in 1985. The sawfly collection contains about 2000 specimens, mainly from Somogy County (South-West Transdanubia) established, identified and published by Attila Haris. Gyöngyös, Mátra Museum The museum was founded in 1857. It has large Hungarian and exotic natural history collections, unfortunately the sawfly collection is small (about 600 specimens identified and published by Lajos Zombori). The oldest sawfly specimens were collected in 1949 (unknown collector). Slovakia Bratislava, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 26,000 identified and about 5,000 unidentified specimens are deposited in the Institute. The collection contains Slovak material collected mainly by Malaise traps between 1992 and 2007. Most Symphyta specimens are stored in 70% ethanol. Based on this collection, Ladislav Roller published more than 25 faunistic papers. Bratislava, Slovak National Museum - Natural History Museum Established in 1924. Large collection from the former Czechoslovakia was mainly collected and identified by Dr. Zdenëk Pádr (between 1950 and 1977). A few specimens were collected by M. Dvorak, J. Macek, I. Okáli, J. Palásek, K. Pospisil, J. Strejcek and B. Tkalcu. The Symphyta collection comprises in total 7,220 specimens, majority from the Czech Republic, and about 1700 from Slovakia (localities: Kovácov, átúrovo, Vihorlat, Remetské Hámre, Gbelce, Kamenica n. Hronom, Nová Vieska, Murán, LesfHrabov, Gombasek, Brehov, Turna nad Bodvou, Streda nad Bodrogom, KráFovsky Clmec, Levice, Nitra-kalvária, Plesivec, Vel'ká Fatra, Vysoké Tatry, Pieniny, Somotor, Parkári, Chotín, Pezinok, Bratislava, Nová Sedlica, Stuzice, Vidová, Nové Mesto n. Váhom, Vrátna dolina, Maié Trakany). JANA JENDEKOVÁ (1988) studied the museum collection and recorded 103 species from south west Slovakia. Banská Bystrica, Stredoslovenské Múzeum Established in 1889. There are 30 identified specimens (Megalodontesoidea, Tenthredinoidea, Siricoidea and Dolerus sp.) in the museum collected by P. Bitusík, T. Kizek, Pura, Kupcová and M. Capek in Nizke Tatry, Mala Fatra, Vel'ká Fatra and Stiavnické vrchy and dated 1954 and 1978-1993. These specimens were identified by R. Masaryková (zoologist of the museum), V. Smetana (hymenopterologist from Tekovské múzeum, Levice) and M. Capek (hymenopterologist). General Hymenoptera collections comprises 2,400 Hymenoptera specimens collected by M. Kocourek and Mr. Polácek in Czech Rep., Bulgaria and Slovakia (Sturovo, Kamenica nad Hronom, Levice, Hronsek) in 1936-1984 with numerous Symphyta species.