Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in the Romanian part of the Carpathian Basin from 1920
134 Natura Somogyiensis the collection with 25 thousand specimens of 2319 species from Romania and 2086 specimens of 1212 species from abroad. She is member of Societatea Romana de Entomologie Generala si Aplicata (SOREGA) [Romanian Society of General and Applied Entomology], Societatea Lepidopterologica Romana (SLR) [Lepidopterological Society of Romania] and Asociatia Muzeografilor Naturalisti din Romania (AMNR) [Association of the Natural History Museologists of Romania], From her numerous paper, we discuss here only 2, the others focus on Dobrodgea and Bucharest region. With Van Der G. Zanden, Ioana Matache compiled the monograph of leafcutter bees of the collection of "Grigore Antipa" Natural History Museum (Zanden and Matache 1986). Her other important paper, which she completed with co-authorship of Alexandra Fiorina Levarda (Alexandra Fiorina Levärdä, (molecular biology laboratory of Natural History Museum "Grigori Antipa" Bucharest, mollusca specialist), is the catalogue of Romanian Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) from the Collection of "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History (Levarda and Matache 2016). Gijs van der Zanden (8th June 1915 Amsterdam - 22nd February 1999 Eindhoven) "Completely unexpectedly, Mr G. van der Zanden died on 22 February, 1999 at his home in Eindhoven from a heart attack. Fie was born on 8 June, 1915 in Amsterdam; his youth was troubled by the early loss of his father. After finishing the Technical College in Amsterdam he was employed by the Philips company and soon he had management position within the company. His passion for bees started in 1950 when he was forced to stay in bed, because of hernia. Through reading the Souvenirs Entomologiques ” by the famous French entomologist J.H. Fahre, he got life-long interest in Hymenoptera- Aculeata especially Megachilinae. After a successful career, which took him to many places all over Europe, he retired at the age of 58. For 25 years, till the age of 83, he worked with an admirable persistence on the Palaearctic Megachilinae. The result is a large number of publications, some reviews, the descriptions of several species new to science, honorary staff membership of the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden and very importantly, a large and completely identified collection. His collection is an important integrated part of the collection of Hymenoptera in the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden." Van der Zanden with co-autorship of Ioana Matache, completed the catalogue of megachilid bees of the Natural History Museum Bucharest (Zanden and Matache 1986). Károly György Nagy; Carol G. Nagy; Qabir Argaman (15th January 1940 Nagyvárad (now Oradea) - October 2003 Israel). Károly finished the Hungarian College of Nagyvárad and continued his studies at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology. After his graduation he spent 13 years at "Marine Research Station" of Agigea. This time, he received a Hungarian scholarship and he was able to study in Szeged at Miklós Móczár. He doctor- ated in natural sciences at Iasi University. In 1981, through his marriage, he emigrated with his family to Israel and changed his last name first to Grossman and then to Qabir Argaman. Argaman worked for the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, specializing in plant protection and pest control. He was university lecturer either and became curator of the entomological collection of the University of Tel Aviv in Bet Dagan. In his new hometown in Israel, Károly was elected Vice President of the Association of Hungarian-speaking citizens. About the types of Károly Nagy we have one source, published by Marcello Romano: "Unfortunately, after his death, as 1 was told by Laibale Friedman, curator of the collections of the Museum Tel Aviv University, the collection has been broken up and partly sold to private by the heirs, partly left at the Ministry of Agriculture, where Argaman worked. However, as I was informed later from Dr. Friedman: for some unknown reason,
