Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research int he Polish part of the Carpathian Basin from 1918
104 Natura Somogyiensis Tadeusz Pawlikowski (18th September 1947 Inowroclaw - ) graduated and completed his doctoral thesis and habilitated at Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun. At this University, he filled the following positions: academic teacher at the Department of Animal Ecology, director at the Biomonitoring Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecology and now, he is scientist at the Department of Ecology and Biogeography. The main subject of his investigations are ecology, ethology and zoogeography of Hymenoptera Aculeata in the following aspects: bioindication of developmental processes in ecosystem and landscape levels , monitoring of social bees and wasps, pollination by bee communities in cultural landscapes and nesting ecology of bees (Apoidea) and wasps (Vespoidea). His past and present memberships: Polish Entomological Society, Polish Zoological Society, International Society of Hymenopterists, New York Academy of Sciences, Bees Wasps Recording Society (GB) and National Geographic Society. Important data are available from the Carpathian Basin in his large monographs on Polish Colletidae, Halictidae and bumble bees (Palikowski 1992, 2008, Rasmont et al. 2015). In three papers on bumblebees, we may find data on the Polish Tatra and Carpathians (Pawlikowski et al. 2007, Pawlikowski and Rafa, 2000). Tadeusz Pawlikowski has one-one paper on the Vespoidea fauna of the Polish Tatra and on the Aculeata fauna of the Pieniny Mts. (Pawlikowski 1997, Szadziewski, Pawlikowski and Buszko 1973). With 4 co-authors, they monitored the invasive Sphecoid wasps providing faunistic data from the northern margin of the Carpathian Basin (Wisniowski et al. 2013). Piotr Olszewski (5th May 1977 Warsawa -) PhD. student at Department of Ecology and Biogeography of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. In (Olszewski et al. 2016) they provided valuable historical and present data of Scolitidae species from the Carpathian Basin partly from the Czech Republic and partly from Poland. They concluded, Scolia hirta (Schrank) and Scolia sexmaculata (Müller) are common in Poland and also in the Czech Republic. Megascolia maculata (Drury) has been recorded only in some parts of the Czech Republic, while Colpa sexmaculata (F.) is considered extinct in both regions. In (Olszewski et al. 2013), they provided distribution data of rare Aculeata species from Poland, few records are from the Carpathian Basin, like the record of Sceliphron curvatum (Smith, 1870) from Pieniny Mts. National Park. Maciej Krzyzynski (1987 — ) PhD. student at Department of Ecology and Biogeography of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. In Olszewski et al. 2016, he is co-author of Piotr Olszewski. Maciej graduated at the same university. His interest in arts, especially his poetry is well known. Tornász Cierzniak (5th September 1961 Szamocin - 16th December 2006 Poznan). His research area is not the Carpathian Basin but his 4 monographs written with several co-authors partly from Russia and Ukraine, contain data from the Carpathian Basin either: two of them on halictid bees (Pesenko et al. 2000, Pesenko, Banaszak and Cierzniak 2002), the other is on Andrenidae (Osytsnjuk et al. 2005) and the third on Megachilidae (Banaszak, Romasenko and Cierzniak 2001). Cierzniak graduated at Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences in Poznan. After his early employments (Department of Biology of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Poznan, Pedagogical School in Bydgoszcz) he employed by Bydgoszcz University and later became deputy director of the Department of Biology and Environmental Protection (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz), and deputy editor-in-chief of the "Polish Journal of Entomology". He was bee specialist and ecologist. Tornász Cierzniak was author of 68 publications.
