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
122 Natura Somogyiensis several species are reported from Tuma nad Bodvou (Toma) (Slovakia) (Bogusch 2003), also we may find data from the Carpathian Basin in Bogusch et al. 2009. He discusses the distribution of Coelioxys alata Förster, 1853 (Bogusch 2005) providing data from the Carpathian Basin. In (Olszewszky et al. 2016) they provided valuable historical and present data of Scolitidae species partly from the Carpathian Basin part of Czech Republic and partly from Poland. From his works dealing with the Czech and Slovak parts of the Carpathian Basin, firstly we mention the faunistic investigation of various areas of Czech (South-East Moravia) and Slovak Republik, these are: Borská nizina (Smetana et al. 2010), Hády Hill (DvoMk et al. 2008). Petr also compiled the Scolioidea fauna of Czech Republic and Slovakia recording 3 new species for Moravia and 5 for Slovakia (Bogusch, 2007). Mario Boni Bartalucci, Museo di Storia Naturale delFUniversitá degli Studi di Firenze. Baralucci in his monograph, titled "European Myzininae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae)" reported data of 2 species from various localities of Slovakia: Stúrovo (Párkány), Nitra (Nyitra), Chotín (Hetény), Somotor (Szomotor) etc. (Bartalucci 2012). Peter Sima (1977 Nővé Zámky (Érsekújvár), in the former Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia - ). According Peter's personal biography: "Nature, and particularly entomology fascinated me since my childhood. Deep interest in aculeate Hymenoptera started during my university studies. Beside others, I studied bumblebee biology, faunistics, zoogeography and trophic interactions under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jana Schlarmannová (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, born in Nitra, Slovakia, 1963) and with great support of Dr. Vladimir Smetana (Tekov Museum in Levice). In the same time, I started to work in the field of modern bumblebee rearing and breeding (bombiculture), and later finished my PhD in applied biology at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Currently I work as entomologist at the bumblebee production of Koppért Biological Systems in Nővé Zámky (Slovakia). " About Peter's work on Hymenoptera, we may say: Peter is young but his work is very significant due to high number of papers that he has already published. Also, he is very good in cooperation with authors dominantly from Czech Republic and Slovakia. From these works, firstly we mention the faunistic investigation of various areas of Slovak Republik, many of them are nature reserves, these are: Nővé Zámky (Érsekújvár) (Sima and Schlarmannová 2007), Southern territories of Slovakia (Smetana and Sima 2007), Borská nizina (Smetana et al. 2010), Hády Hill (Dvorák et al. 2008), Moravian and Silezian border (Dvorák et al. 2010), Slovensky Kras (Sima and Smetana 2011), Tvrdosovce (Tardoskedd) (Sima and Smetana 2007), Podtatranska kotlina (Sub-Tatra Basin) (Smetana and Sima 2012), Lőcse (Levoca) and Körmöcbánya (Kremnica) (Smetana et al. 2015) and Turzovka (Turzófalva) (Smetana and Sima, 2014). Other important group of Peter's work are the distributional studies of various Hymenoptera species, namely Bombus haematurus Kriechbaumer, 1870; Bombus semenoviellus Skorikov, 1910 and Bombus argillaceus (Scopoli, 1763) (Sima and Smetana 2009,2012; Sima, Smetana and Cízek 2014). With Vladimir Smetana, they have one paper on parasite ecology (Sphaerularia bombi Dufour, 1837) parasiting bumble bees (SiMa and Smetana 2011). They also made a conference presentation summarizing our knowledge on the bumble bee fauna of Slovakia (Smetana and Sima 2009). Peter Sima is co-author of the multiauthored monograph on bumble bee subgenus Bombus s. str. species (Williams et al. 2012). With Vladimir Smetana, they studied the effect of global warming for hymenoptera fauna (Smetana and Sima 2008) either.
