Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia and int he former Yugoslavia from 1920
124 Natura Somogyiensis Alena Votavová (before her marriage Alena Bucánkova, 28th March 1983 Ostrava -) Alena graduated at Masaryk University in Brno in 2007, Faculty of Science, where she received her PhD as well. She started her career at Research Institute for Fodder Crops, Ltd. Troubsko and now, Alena works for the Agricultural Research, Ltd. in Troubsko, Czech Republik. Her research area are: laboratory rearing of bumble bees for research purposes and pollination; comparison of hibernation and aestivation physiology in bumble bees, based on changes in lipids in the lifespan of B. terrestris', study of bumble bee parasites, bumble bee microflora of the digestive tract and their immune system and research of methods that support the occurrence of bumble bees in the landscape. Her co-authors are Vladimír Ptácek (18th August 1944 in Brno - , Assoc, professor, Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science: Dept. Animal Physiology and General Zoology before he took his present position he worked for the Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Science in Brno and later for Research Ins. for Fodder Crops, Troubsko), Tereza (Cholastová) Sabolová (Laboratory manger, Research Institute for Fodder Crops Department of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Troubsko) and Olga Komzáková (Research worker of the Research Institute for Fodder Crops, Ltd. Troubsko and PhD Student of Masaryk University in Bmo, graduated in 2000 at Masarik university, she is specialized for Diptera: Anthomiidae). In B ucánková et al. (2011), they studied several places in and around the Carpathian Basin. Two sampling places were in the Carpathian Basin, namely NP Podyji, pod Sobesem and CHKO Bílé Karpaty, Strání. The species which were captured here, only morphologically looked Bombus cryptarum (Fabricius, 1775) after checking with molecular analysis of a part of the mtDNA COl gene using RFLP, they proved to be Bombus terrestris Linné, 1758. The presence of Bombus cryptarum (Fabricius, 1775) was confirmed only out of the Carpathian Basin. History of the Aculeata research in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia and in the former Yugoslavia from 1920 Vatroslav Vogrin (4th January 1886 Stridóvár (now Strigova) - 5th February 1956 Zagreb) Most of his species descriptions belong to the Dalmatian sea-side. From the Southern Carpathian Basin, Vogrin described 3 new species and 1 new color variation, namely Discolia trifasciata Vogrin, 1954, Cleptes semiauratus var. pallipes Vogrin, 1955, Harpactus picticornis Vogrin, 1954 and Harpactus croaticus Vogrin, 1954. The latest 2 names are still valid (Vogrin 1954, 1955). In his paper, titled "Arten der Gattung Scolia Fahr. Kroatiens, Slavoniens, Dalmatiens und Istriens", Vogrin described scolitid wasps of these region and provided their distribution data including northern regions of Croatia and Slavonia (Vogrin 1915). In 1918, he published a faunistic paper on his hometown in Hungarian language, titled "Adatok Stridóvár környékének Hymenoptera- faunájához" (Data to Hymenoptera fauna of Stridóvár and its surroundings) in which he provides data of high number of Apoidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea species (Vogrin 1918). Vatroslav Vogrin finished the high school in Varasd (now Varasdin). After his graduation in Zagreb and Prague universities, he worked for the Zoological Museum of Zagreb and became head of Entomological Department. Later he continued his career as professor of the high school in Zengg (Senj).
