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
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 137 Museum in Sibiu (Nagyszeben) and completed the Sphecoidea part of the series titled "Fauna Republica Socialista Romania" (Scobiola 1950, 1951, 1954, 1960a, b, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974). Later her scope of research expanded to the Pompiloidea and Vespoidea fauna of Romania, including Transylvania (Scobiola 1967, 1973). In her late years, her interest turned to Apoidea and with co-authorship of Klaus Warncke she completed the fauna-catalogue of Andrena species of Romania including numerous valuable faunistic data from Transylvania (Warncke and Scobiola 1980). With Anna Zacharowa Osythsnjuk she completed the fauna-catalogue of genus Halictus as well (Scobiola and Osythsnjuk 1974). Her works based on her personal collectings, the material of the natural history collections in Romania and she were also twice in Budapest (in the early 70's) to study the Transylvanian hymenoptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum as well. Dinu Aurel Sever Paraschivescu (6th September 1931 Bucharest - May 2001 Bucharest) Dinu Paraschivescu graduated at "Oituz" Theoretical High School in Bacau. After two years attending the Pedagogical Institute of Bucharest he returned to Bacau, where he taught for a while and continued his university studies in Biology again in Bucharest graduating in 1955. His first job was at the Academy Institute of Agronomic Research - Phytopathology Department, under the management of Traian Savulescu. After three years, he joined to the Taxonomy and Ecology Department under the supervision of Mihai Ionescu and Wilhelm Karl Knechtel. In 1965, Dinu Paraschivescu defended his PhD Thesis, titled " Systematical, ecological and ethological research on some ant species from Romania". In 1967, he received the "AI. von Humbold" scholarship at Würzburg Z.I. under the scientific supervision of Karl Goswald. He was honorary member of the German Zoological Society, the Forest Health Society of Bavaria and the International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Besides myrmecology, D. Paraschivescu also researched wasps, compiling the list of 49 Vespoidea species of Romania. He also studied bumble bees. Paraschivescu published more than 120 scientific papers. Due to his sudden death in May 2001, he never finished his last monograph: ants and wasps in the series Fauna Romania. Although his main field of research were ants, we know few papers of him on other Aculeata including faunistic data from the Carpathian Basin. With Karl Wilhelm Knechtel, Arascu Raicev and Aristia Goaga they published the bumblebee fauna of Singeorz-Bai, Oradea county (Arad megye) and Bacau county (Knechtel and Paraschivescu 1962, Paraschivescu and Goaga 1994, Paraschivescu and Arcasu 1977). Cristian Raicev Arcasu was poet and in some works co-author of Dinu Paraschivescu. Vasile Berbece (12th December 1939 Calimanesti - 22nd October 1995 Calimanesti). Vasile Berbece started his career in the high school in Daesti, later, he became professor of the Calemanesti High School of Economics, finally, he worked in Ramnicu Valcea, at the University of Management and Marketing "Constantin Brancoveanu". Although he was professor of geology, he published several scientific papers on zoology: not only on Hymenoptera, but on Coleoptera, reptiles and even on the Carpathian scorpion as well. Furthermore, he published even on botanies and vegetation (Muntelui Cozia). Berbece completed a paper on the Bumblebee fauna of Gyilkos Lake (Lacu Rosu) and Tordai canyon titled "Contributii la studiul raspandirii bombinelor — Hymenoptera din rez- ervatiile naturale Cheile Turzii si Lacul Rosu" (Berbece 1961). Elena - Mariana Aftene (10th January 1939, Ploiesti - 19th February 1998, Ploiesti) was curator at Museum of Natural Sciences Ploiesti. She specialized for Megachilidae
