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
126 Natura Somogyiensis listed from the former Yugoslavia including its northern territories (Nonvellier, Perovic and Gjerapic 1998). Jelena Grozdanovic (Biological Institute, Beograd Yugoslavia) In her paper, titled "Sphegidae okoline Beograda" confirmed the presence of 53 Sphecoidea species in 22 genea around Belgrade (Grozdanovic 1957). Svetislav Zivojinovic coleoptera specialist, faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade. On 3rd of December 1966, Svetislav Zivojinovic, professor of forest entomology died. He was killed returning to his car from a business trip to Belgrade. Prof. Zivojinovic was bom on 7th of August in 1907, in Zenta (Senta) where he finished his primary and secondary schools and graduated at Faculty of Forestry of Belgrade University. He specialized for applied zoology and entomology. After completing his military service, he became assistant in Forest Entomology of Agriculture and Forestry University In Belgrade. Svetislav Zivojinovic spent the war years in German captivity. After the war, he became assistant professor, associate professor and finally full professor of Forest Protection and Forest Entomology Department of the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun. In 1963, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts elected him to corresponding member. The title of his monograph is "Fauna insekata sumske domene Majdanpek" which includes Hymenoptera, Aculeata part as well with rich and detailed faunistic list (Zivojinovic 1950). Majdanpek region is close to the Romanian border, on the southern projection of Carpathian Mts. Jelena Pavlovié published the Vespoidea collection of the Natural History Museum Belgrade. She listed 12 species, some of them from the Southern border of the Carpathian Basin: Beograd, Obedska Bara (PavloviC 1958). Anna Zacharova Osytshnjuk (originally: Hanna Kolmas, 25th September 1926 Bandurovka (next to Kirovograd) - 13th May 1998 Kiev). See her biography in the Soviet part of this monograph described Andrena grozdanici Osytshnjuk, 1975 from Beograd region. Simeon (Sima) Grozdanic (15th February 1896 Svica- 1972 Belgrade) Apidologist. He was pupil of Sremski Karlovci (Karlóca) Highschool and graduated at Zagreb and Beograd universities. During the first world war Sima Grozdanic fought on the battlefields of Galicia, Poland and Russia. Returning home, he started to teach at Sremski Karlovci (Karlóca) High School where he became director either. For a year, he was manager of the Station of Apiculture in Vrbas (Verbász) than continued his career at Faculty of Philosophy and later at Faculty of Natural Sciences of Belgrade University as professor of zoology (see the entry on Gyula Szöllősi). Professor Grozdanic described Apis mellifica var. banatica Grozdanic, 1926 from the Carpathian Basin (Bánát). This species is not included in the list (species described from the Carpathian Basin) since, apiculture is not our topic. There is an other species that he described from the forest of Kosutnjak (next to Belgrade) but unfortunately he didn't give name this species, only he mentioned it as Osmia (Helicosmia) nov. spec. aff. gracilicornis Perez (Grozdanic 1971a). Simeon Grozdanic studied the life history and ecology of Vespa crabro L., Ceratina spp. Latr., Eucera excisa Mocs., Osmia mfohirta Latr., O. bicolor Sehr., Xylocopa violacea L., X. valga Gerst., X. cyanescens Br., Osmia bidentata Mor., Anthophora pubescens F., Halictus malachurus K., //. maculatus Sm., Halictus asperu- lus Pz., Anthophora acervorum L., A. parietina F., A. crinipes Sm., Systropha planidens
