Ladislav Roller - Attila Haris - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research - Natura Somogyiensis 11. (Kaposvár, 2008)
Method and material
Method and material This book has 2 predecessors, first and foremost the Hymenoptera part of the Fauna regni Hungáriáé (MOCSÁRY 1900) issued for the celebration of the 1000 th anniversary of the establishment of Hungary and the unfinished series of Dr. Lajos Zombori, titled A checklist of Symphyta from the Carpathian Basin (ZOMBORI 1974a and 1981a). To find the earliest articles, published between 1772 and 1897, we consulted the "Literature Hymenopterorum" (MOCSÁRY 1882) and the Fauna Regni Hungáriáé (MOCSÁRY 1900). The majority of entomological papers published between 1900 and 1925 were listed in the monograph of Dr. Irma Allodiatoris titled: "Bibliographie der Zoologie im Karpatenbecken" (ALLODIATORIS 1966). For the history part, the papers and books of Ábrahám, Hrabovec, Karl, Kenyeres, Kiss, Koleska, Matache, Matousek, Méhes, Móczár, Odor, Okáli, Papp, Szakáll, Tóth and Unghy were studied (ÁBRAHÁM and PAPP 1994, HRABOVEC 1990, KENYERES 2001, KOLESKA 1979-1991, Kiss et al. 2006, MÉHES and KARL 1925, MÓCZÁR 2006, MATACHE 1981, OKÁLI 1984, OKÁLI et. al., 1996, TÓTH 1989, 1994, 1996, TÓTH and ÁBRAHÁM 1990, TÓTH and SZAKÁLL 1988). Furthermore, we also studied the original works and frequently even the manuscripts of the old authors (Mocsáry and Frivaldszky). The majority of the archive photos were copied from the Collection of Science History, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. For the identification of sawflies, the following books and papers were consulted: The sawfly parts of the Fauna Hunagariae series by Zombori and Móczár (MÓCZÁR and ZOMBORI 1973; ZOMBORI 1982a and 1990a) the monograph on the sawflies of the European part of the former Soviet Union (ZHELOCHOVTSEV 1988) and the identification key "Sirokopasi - Symphyta" by BOUCEK and PÁDR (1957). The identifications were checked with the aid of several recent revisionary works (HEIDEMAA and VITASAARI 2004; HEIDEMAA et al., 2004, TAEGER 1998, BLANK and RITZAU 1998, BLANK and TAEGER 1998). In the nomenclature of sawflies, we followed the names of the Fauna Europaea and the Electronic World Catalogue of Symphyta databases and the Checklist of the European sawflies (ACHTERBERG 2004; TAEGER and BLANK 2006 and TAEGER et al., 2006). Approximately 30% of the total faunistic data are new. The new records are based partly on the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and partly on that of the Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. The dubious records were reidentified. However the complete reidentification was impossible because of the high amount of probably lost old material and the exceptionally large Carpathian Basin collection of the Budapest Museum, which holds more than 40,000 specimens. Furthermore, due to financial reasons, we could not study the Prague, Vienna, and Zagreb collections and most of the small collections in the countries of the Carpathian Basin either. The new records were mainly identified by the authors, however numerous new faunistic records were previously identified by Dr. Lajos Zombori. The confirmed misidentifications are cancelled from the literature part of the entries and the corrected data were put into the "New records" entries where they were appropriate. The newly recorded sawflies listed under the "New records" entries are deposited mainly in 2 larger collections: the Slovak sawflies in the collection of Institute of Zoology, Bratislava, the Hungarian, Transylvanian (Romanian) and Subcarpathian (Ukrainian) sawflies and about 10% of the Slovak sawflies in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.
