Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in the Soviet and Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Basin (Kárpátalja, Subcarpathia) from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 107 Bogdan Wisniowski (29th December 1961 Tamów -) Bogdan Wisniowski graduated and defended his doctoral thesis at Agricultural University of Krakow. Now, he is manager at Ojców National Park, Poland. Wisniowski's nature photographs are visible on internet and as far as I may judge them, they represent the highest standard in nature photography. In this aspect, his biography parallel with László Móczár but Bogdan Wisniowski uses the technology of the 21st century. Bogdan Wisniowski is the most productive author of the region. In many of his papers, he is co-author of Miroslawa Dylewska, Piotr Olszewski and Waldemar Celary. These papers have already discussed above. In his faunistic papers the followings are the most important (in our point of view): Aculeata fauna of Ojcow National Park (Wisniowski 2003, 2005), Aculeata of Beskid Mts. (Wisniowski 2000) and Magúra National Park (Wisniowski and Werstak, 2003, 2009a, b). Further faunistic data we may find in his series on Pompilidae with Jan Krzysztof Kowalczyk (Lodz, Natural History Museum, retired, now he lives in Gdynia) (Wisniowski and Kowalczyk 1998b, 2002) and Sphecoidea with Krzysztof Werstak (University of Humanities and Sciences, Institute of Biology in Kielce) (Wisniowski and Kowalczyk, 1998a, Wisniowski and Werstak 2003, Wisniowski et al. 2013). He also provided distribution data of Polistes dominulus (Christ, 1791) and P. gallicus (Linné, 1767) including Cieszyn, Beskid Mts. and Skawina (Wisniowski 2004). Piotr Bilanski (Department of Forest Protection, Forest Entomology and Climatology, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow), Zbigniew Kolodziej (Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow) and Marek Pajak (Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow) published a paper on the distribution of Sceliphron destillatori- um Illiger, 1807 in Poland. They recorded many localities, these localities are concentrated for South Poland, dominantly to the Polish Tatra, Carpathians and Beskid Mts. These data are mapped by using UTM grids (Bilanski, Kolodziej' and Pajak 2012). Krzysztof Kukula, Henryk Okarma, Jerzy Pawlowski, Kajetan Perzanowski, Tomas Ruzicka, Judit Sándor, Viera Stanova, Lydia Tasenkevich and Mojmir Vlasin completed the "Carpathian List of Endangered Species" (Kukula et al. 2003). 42 Hymenoptera species are listed, dominantly Aculeata species. These species are displayed in table format which contains the countries of the Carpathian Basin and the status of the endangered hymenoptera according to the IUCN categories. History of the Aculeata research in the Soviet and Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Basin (Kárpátalja, Subcarpathia) from 1920 The so called "Ukrainian Carpathians" was partly Hungarian (Munkács-Mukachevo and Ungvár-Uzhhorod region) and partly Polish territories in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Lwow-Lemberg and Sambor region). So, the earliest researches were done by Polish authors, as it discussed in the chapter "Aculeata research in West Galicia (now part of Ukrainian Carpathians) and Polish Tatras". Further data were recorded in Mocsáry’s monographs (Mocsáry 1900) from the Hungarian part of Subcarpathia around Munkács (Mukachevo). After 1920, this area was Czechoslovak holding till the Soviet occupation. The earliest Ukrainian research started in the late fifties of the 20th century, in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
