Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)

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100 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS the species of Central Europe. BOGUSCH (2006) listed velvet ants of the Czech Republic and Slovakia together with identification keys and detailed locality data. LELEJ (1985) monographed the velvet ant fauna of Russia and the neighbouring countries, with several identification keys. MOCSÁRY (1881, 1897), BAJÁRI (1952, 1956), BAJÁRI & MÓCZÁR (1954), MÓCZÁR (1953) and JÓZAN (2001) were among entomologists in Hungary, whose interests included velvet ants. BAJÁRI (1954) published identification keys on the velvet ants in Hungary. Budapest and its neighbourhood (as a result of the collecting efforts of József Muskovits and Ottó Merkl), county Somogy and the Balaton area (Zsolt Józan) and North-eastern Hungary (Gábor Hegyessy) are considered to be relatively better examined parts of Hungary. The research of velvet ants in Hungary is not considered complete. Acknowledgements We are grateful to all museologists and private persons who permitted the study of their collections or help in collecting velvet ants. They were Levente Ábrahám (Somogy County Museums, Kaposvár), Gábor Hegyessy (Kazinczy Ferenc Museum, Sátoraljaújhely), Zsolt Józan (Mernye), Csaba Kutasi (Natural History Museum of Bakony Mountains, Zirc), Ludevit' Kasovsky (Martin, Slovakia), Oto Majzlan (Bratislava, Slovakia), Sándor Csősz (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest). Special thanks to Ottó Merkl for advice and much technical help, Eszter Muskovits for revising the English translation, Nikola Rahmé for the photographs of velvet ants, András Muskovics for drawing the distribution maps, and Zsolt Józan for advice. We thank Arkady S. Lelej (Vladivostok, Russia), Petr Bogusch (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic) and Toshko Ljubomirov (Sofia, Bulgaria) for help clarify a number of questions.