Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Czechoslovaki, in Slvoakia and int he Czech part of the Carpathian Basin from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 119 Anna Smetanová, PhD. (bom in Levice, Slovakia, 1984 -). She studied wasps during her high school, where she completed a study on Vespidae (Smetanová 2001) which were published by the High School Andrej a Vrábla in Levice (Léva), after this, she stopped studying Aculeata. Thirteen years later, she completed a short work with Vladimir Smetana on the natural values of Devicany (Baka) (Smetanová and Smetana 2014). She currently works in the sustainable soil management in multifunctional landscapes (LISAH, INRA in Montpellier, France). Zdenék Safarik (1960 -) studied at the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov University in Moscow (1984) and received his PhD title from Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Science in 2009. Zdenék Safarik started his career at ONV, Department of Culture in Ziar nad Hronom as inspector of nature protection and became deputy manager of the Department of Culture. From 1991, in the next 10 years, he managed the District Environmental Office in Banská Stiavnica (Selmecbánya). In the next 9 years, Zdenék Safarik worked for Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Besztercebánya) as University lecturer, assistant professor and finally as head of department. From 2011, Safarik works for Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of logistic and crisis management. Safarik did research on bumble bees and honey bees in the localities around Banská Stiavnica: Banská Stiavnica (Selmecbánya), Beluja (Béla), Banská Belá (Bélabánya). His results were published in a small soft-cover book "Etológia a ekológia vcely medonosnej (Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758) a divo zijúcich veiéi na vybranom üzemi Slovenska", in which Safarik discusses the ecology, life history and ethology of bumble bees and honeybees (Safarik 2013). With very similar title, his results were also published in Cluj Napoca (Kolozsvár) in shortened form (Safarik 2014). Libor Dvorák, Malacologist, Dipterologist and Hymenopterologist. Since 2009, curator of Mestské Museum Mariánské Lázne. Before this, he had 15 years of experience as assistant professor at the Scientific Department of NP Administration of Sumava Protected Landscape Area. In the following faunistic projects he participated: Borská nizina (Smetana et al. 2010), Ostrava region (Dvorák, Smetana and Tyrner 2006), Vysenské kopce Nature Reserve (Dvorák et al. 2007), Hády Hill (Dvorák et al. 2008), Králicky Sneznik (Dvorák, Bogusch and Smetana 2009), Moravian and Silezian border (Dvorak et al. 2010), Maié Karpaty (Kis-Kárpátok) (Dvorák and Smetana 2005). With Viktória Répási and Enikő Havas, he contributed to complete the checklist of Vespidae of Hungary (Répási, Havas and Dvorák 2009) and recorded firstly from Romania Dolichovespula adulterina (Dvorák 2006). His fermented fruit syrup for trapping wasps was tested in Bratislava (Dvorák 2006). With Vladimir Smetana, they provided data on distribution of Polistes galiicus in Slovakia Dolichovespula media and Polistes bischof- fi in the Czech republic and in Slovakia (Dvorák and Smetana 2007, Dvorák et.al., 2006, Smetana, Déván and Dvorák 2006). With Jakub Straka, they compiled the list of Vespoidea of Czech, Moravia and Slovakia: 80 species are known from the Czech Republic (69 from Bohemia, 76 from Moravia), and 87 from Slovakia. Eumenes coro- natus (Panzer, 1799) was new for Moravia; Stenodynerus clypeopictus (Kostylev, 1940), Ancistrocerus renimacula (Lepeletier, 1841), Eumenes coarctatus lunulatus Fabricius, 1804, and Eumenes coronatus (Panzer, 1799) were new for Slovakia (Dvorák and Straka 2007). Libor Dvorak published the Vespoidea collection of the Moravian Museum in Brno (Dvorák 2006c).
