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
130 Natura Somogyiensis Faunistic Entomology and research associate at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Functional and Evolutionary Entomology Unit of University of Liége. In one of his publication, titled "Nouvelle contribution a la connaissance des Hymenopteres Pompilides de la Yougoslavie" he provides valuable faunistic data on the Southern part of the Carpathian Basin (Wahis 1970). Raymond Wahis in this paper published distribution data of 67 species from various places of the former Yugoslavia. These data are dominantly from the Southern regions, but we may find high number of data from the northern or middle territories like Bánát, Podcetrtek, Kranjska Gora, Slovenska Bistrica. In the end of the paper, Wahis provided the check list of Pompilidae of Yugoslavia, including those, which he'd already recoded in his previous paper on the Pompilidae of Yugoslavia in 1963 (Wahis 1970, 1963). Andrej Gogala according to his self-biography "Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana. Born in 1962 in Ljubljana. Primary and secondary school in Ljubljana, graduated in June 1981 at the First high school Ljubljana-Bezigrad. Studied biology - research and technical direction at the Biotechnical Faculty of the Ljubljana University, graduated in May 1987. PhD in Biological Sciences in 1997 at the Biotechnical Faculty. Doctoral dissertation: Wild bees of Slovenia: faunistic, biogeo- graphical and ecological analysis. In September 1992, he performed an internship at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. Since 1997, the curator of Entomology. He is a member of the Slovenian Entomological Society and editor of the journal Acta Entomologica Slovenica. Explores the Slovenian fauna of true bugs (Heteroptera) and wild bees (Apoidea)". Andrej Gogala has 3 important monographs and their additions, namely "Contribution to the Knowledge of the Bee Fauna of Slovenia (Hymenoptera: Apidae)" first and second parts, "Bee Fauna of Slovenia: Checklist of species" (in this work, Gogala provided Zoogeographie map of Slovenia, in which the alpine, subalpine and prealpine regions are part of the Carpathian Basin) (Gogala 1991, 1994, 1999, Gogala and Jenice 2003). In the "Some interesting notes of the Andrena species in Slovenia" and "Megachilid bees of Slovenia” the distribution data are completed with distribution maps (Gogala, 2011, 2014). Gogala with Aljaz Jenic and Janez Grad recorded firstly Bombus haemturus Kriechb. from Slovenia and provided its distribution in the Southern part of the Carpathian basin inside Slovenia (Jenic et al. 2010). In his monograph, titled "Sphecid wasps of Slovenia", he recorded 118 species with their places of capture (Gogala 2011) and he reported the invasive Sphecoid wasps from Slovenia, namely Sceliphron curva- tum (Smith, 1870) and lsodontia mexicana (Saussure, 1867) either, one of them from Gancani (North Slovenia) the other from Ljubjana (Central Slovenia) (Gogala 1995). He provided Slovenian data for the paper on the distribution of Colletes hederae Schmidt & Westrich in Veckeen et al. 2009. Co-authors of Andrej Gogala: Par Nicolas J Vereecken Evolution Biologique & Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Hans Schwenninger Büro Entomologie und Ökologie Stuttgart; Stuart Roberts Center for Agro-Environmental Research (CAER), School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK.; Aljaz Jenic (Aljaz Jenic) entomologist, living in Ljubjana works for Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia and Janez Grad 1933 Ljubjana - , professor of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of Ljubjana University. Miloje D. Krunic, Hymenopterist, apoidea specialist. In 1971, he spent a research period supported by a postdoctorate fellow from the National Research Council of Yugoslavia at Lethbridge Research Station at Alberta, Canada. Ten years later, between 1981 and 1983 he was head of Department of Zoology of Belgrad University. Professor
