Ladislav Roller - Attila Haris - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research - Natura Somogyiensis 11. (Kaposvár, 2008)
Regions of the Carpathian Basin
The authors did intensive correspondences with the general managers, specialists, and collection managers of the different collections in and around the Carpathian Basin to explore their hidden collections and learn as much as possible about the origin, size, history and typical sawfly specimens of these museums. These results are published in the chapter Sawfly collections in and around the Carpathian Basin. Regions of the Carpathian Basin The Carpathian Basin is a nature-geographic unit in Central Europe extending over the political boundaries and . surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, the Alps and the Dinaric mountains. Its border is more or less arbitrary and partly or entirely 11 countries belong to this territory. It Contains the entire territory of Hungary and Slovakia and significant parts of Romania (Transylvania, partly Muntenia and Oltenia), Ukraine (Kárpátalja-Subcarpathia, Galicia), Croatia (Slavonia) and Serbia (Vajdaság-Voivodina). Furthermore, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia-Hercegovina also have smaller territories inside the Carpathian Basin (Beskid Mts., Muravidék, Burgenland, Semberija). According to MÓCZÁR (1972) the Carpathian Basin is divided into 7 zoogegoraphical regions, namely: Pannonicum, Matricum, Carpathicum, Moesicum, Noricum, Illyricum and Adriaticum. The Adriatic sea-shore (Adriaticum) is not discussed in this study. The main natural regions and subregions of the Carpathian Basin -like to the whole area- are also extending over the national borders. These are: Region 1: Norhtern Carpathian Basin Subregions: Northern Medium Mountains (Északi Középhegység: Börzsöny, Gödöllői dombság Mátra Mts., Cserhát Mts., Bükk and Zemplén Mts. in Hungary and smaller part in Slovakia: Matransko-slanská oblast'). Fatra-Tatra Region (Fátra-Tátra vidék, Fatransko-tatranská oblasf) in Slovakia and Poland. Garam/Hron Valley (Garamvölgy, Pohronie), Nyitra/Nitra Valley (Nyitra-völgye, Ponitrie) and Vag/Vah Valley (Vág-völgy, Povazie) in Slovakia. Outer North-Western Carpathian Mts. (Külső-Északnyugati-Kárpátok, Vonkajsie Západné Karpaty) in Slovakia, and small parts in Czech Republic and Poland. Nograd-Ipoly/Ipel Basin (Nógrádi-medence, Ipel'ská kotlina) and Sajo-HernadV Rimavsko-kosicka Basin (Sajó-Hernád-medence, Rimavsko-kosická kotlina) in Hungary and Slovakia. Selmec Mountains/ Mts of Slovenske stredohorie (Selmeci-körhegység, Slovenské stredohorie) and Gomor-Szepes/ Slovenské rudohorie Mts. (Gömör-Szepesi-érchegység, Slovenské rudohorie) in Slovakia. Region 2: Western Carpathian Basin Subregions: Foots of the Alps (Alpokalja, Östliche Alpenvorland: Kőszeg Mountains, Sopron Mts., Vas Hills and Balfi Hills, Lajta Mts.-Leithagebirge, Vulka-Basin-Wulkabecken, Sopron Basin-Ödenburger Becken, Fertő Hills-Ruster Hügelland, Vendvidék-Goricko, Mura-vidék-Pomurje etc.) in Austria and Hungary, partly in Slovenia.
