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
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 131 Miloje Krunic prematurely retired in 1997, following the university protests in Beograd after invalidating of the 1996/97 municipal elections. Professor Miloje Krunic with his co-authors studied 2 important wild bee pollinators of Serbian orchards, namely Osmia cornuta (Latr.) and Osmia rufa (L.) in all aspects of their life history, like diapause, overwintering, distribution, population management etc. (Krunic et al. 1997b, 1998, 2001,2006, Krunic and Stanisavljevic 2006a, b,c). The other pollinator bee species he studied was Megachile rotundata Fabricius (Kruniú et al. 1995, 1997a). He is co-author of a paper, titled "New and little-known species of digger wasps (Sphecidae Hymenoptera) in the fauna of Yugoslavia" ( Radovic et al. 1982). Ljubisa Stanisavljevic (5th March 1969 Leskovac -) He attended the primary school in Vucje and secondary school at the high school of Leskovac. Before his military service in 1987, he enrolled as full time student at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade and graduated in 1994. Ljubisa Stanisavljevic received job at the Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology of Belgrade University. He completed is PhD studies in 1996 and 4 years after he received his PhD title. He became assistant professor at the Department of Morphology, Systematics and Phylogeny of Animals Faculty of Biology. Now, he is associate professor in the same institute. With Nebojsa Nedic, (Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University in Zemun) they published a paper on the role of bees in Orchard pollination in Serbia (Stanisavljevió and Nedic 2008). Ljubisa Stanisavljevic is co-author of Miloje D. Krunic in further further 7 papers in which they studied Osmia cornuta (Latr.) and Osmia rufa (L.) as important wild bee pollinator of Serbian orchards (see also the entry on Miloje D. Krunic). Ivica T. Radovic (1950 Risan in Montenegro - ); Ivica Radovic after his primary and secondary school in Kotor, Montenegro, graduated at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Belgrade. He completed his PhD thesis at Smithsonian Institute Washington. Now, he is full professor of Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade. From last year, he is the dean of the faculty. Ivica Radovic participated in several hymenopterological projects. In Vespidae faunistic, he published a paper with Aleksandar Cetkovic on the altitudinal distribution of the Serbian social wasp fauna (Cetkovic and Radovic 1996). The other 2 papers of him deal with Sphecoidea, one of them, with the invasive Sceliphron caementarium Drury (Cetkovic, Radovic and Dorovic 2004) in the other paper, they publish new Sphecoid records for the fauna of the former Yugoslavia (Radovic et al. 1982). In this paper, most of the species are reported from the sea-side only Cerceris ruficornis F. is reported from Globulac, southern part of the Carpathian Basin. He is also co-author in one paper, studying the diapause of Osmia cornuta (Latr.) (Krunic et al. 2001). Miloe M. Brajkovic (21st February 1949 Tovrljani - 4th April, 2010 Belgrade) Braconidae specialist. After his primary and secondary school studies in Prokuplje he graduated at University of Belgrade. After his graduation, he was appointed Curator at Belgrade Natural History Museum. From 1980, he started his university career at the Department of Morphology, Systematics and Phylogeny of Animals in the Faculty of Biology. For a 4 years period, he served as president of the Entomological Society of Serbia and he was member of the Editorial board of Acta Entomologica Serbica either. Miloe Brajkovic is co-author of 4 papers on Megachile rotundata Fab., Osmia cornuta (Latr.) and Osmia rufa (L.) (Krunic et al., 1997a,b, 1998,2001) and co-author in 1 paper on the Sphecoid fauna of Serbia (Radovic et al. 1982).
