Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 101 stand), Vadon (Wildlife), Nimród, Természet világa (Nature), Természet Búvár (Naturalist) and Madártávlat (Bird's-eye view)." Bánk Botond published papers on the newly appeared invasive Sphecoidea species such as Isodontia mexicana (Saussure, 1867) and Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) (Sipos 2010a,c, 2015). He has a popular scientific paper on the ethology of Sceliphron destillatorium (Illiger, 1807) either. Dóra Vaskor (17th February 1989 Balassagyarmat -) Dóra is living in Magyamándor. After finishing Balassi Bálint High School in her hometown, she received her BSc. at Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences in environmental sciences and later, her MSc. in biology at Szent István (King Saint Stephen) University in Gödöllő. She is PhD student of Miklós Sárospataki at Gödöllő University. She writes her thesis on wild bee faunistics and pollination-ecology in nature protected areas. One of her main field of research is the pollination ecology. She investigated the seminatural fragments in maintaining the pollinator communities (Vaskor et al. 2015, Bihaly, Vaskor and Sárospataki 2015, Sárospataki et al. 2015, Bihaly et al. 2015). Dóra Vaskor investigated the effect of various disturbances for the pollination of wild bees (Vaskor et al. 2014). Finally, very important part of her publications the bumblebee research (ecology and pollination) (Kovács-Hostyánszky et al. 2014, Sárospataki et al. 2016, Sárospataki et al. 2014, Bakos et. al, 2013). Zoltán György (8th August, 1979, Budapest - ) Zoltán completed his primary and secondary schools at Budapest and graduated at Kecskemét College, Faculty of Horticulture. He is horticultural engineer. The title of his diploma-thesis was "Insect pests of grapevine". In 2002, he was employed by Department of Zoology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Here, Zoltán worked as collection manager of Coleoptera. Now, Zoltán is marketing and communications specialist of the museum. Petra Szöllősi-Tóth is Zoltán's wife and his co-author. Zoltán is a talented artist, illustrator. With his wife Petra Szöllősi-Tóth, they completed a check list of Drynidae of Hungary and summarized the history of Drynidae research (Szöllősi-Tóth and György 2009a,b). With József Muskovits, they published a well illustrated monograph of the velvet ant fauna of Hungary (Muskovits and György 2011). Petra Szöllősi-Tóth (2nd August 1980 Cegléd - ) Petra studied at János Damjanich High School at Nagykáta, and Kecskemét College of Horticulture. She is conservator of the Hymenoptera Collection of Nat. Hist. Mus. Budapest. In "Checklist of Dryinidae of Hungary" (Szöllősi-Tóth and György 2009a) they listed 42 species, Gonatopus dis- tinctus Kieffer, 1906 was recorded first time for Hungary. They summarized the history and research results on Drynidae in Hungary (Szöllősi-Tóth and György 2009b). Zoltán Vas (1985 -) Zoltán started as ornithologist then specialized for bird lice, now curator of Hymenoptera of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Zoltán for few years, when he moved from the collection of mammals to the Hymenoptera collection has been specialized for Ichneumonidae. However, he is co-author of some papers on Aculeata as well. One of them is a popular scientific work with co-authorship of Anikó Kovács- Hostyánszki, the title: "Secret of bees - everything is over when they disappear" (VÁS and Kovács-Hostyánszki 2013). Other 2 papers belong to the "insect of the year" project. In 2014, it was Bombus terrestris (Linné, 1758) (Kovács-Hostyánszky et al. 2014, Vas 2014, Vas, 2014). In "New data and key to the Mud-Dauber fauna of Hungary (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)" they reported distribution data of Sceliphron curvatum (Smith, 1870) and Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) was firstly reported from
