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 139 Mariana graduated at Babes-Bolyai University of Sciences in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca) in geology and biology. From 1976, she was employed by the Natural History Department of the Nagyszeben (Sibiu) museum and she worked also for the Heritage Protection Committee (Oficiul de Patrimoniu). She defended her doctoral thesis in 1997, titled "Taxonomy, ecology and faunistics of Apoidea of the Nagyszeben (Sibiu) Basin" at the Babes-Bolyai University, her scientific consultant was Prof. Tomescun Nicolae. According to information of Lajos Zombori (Symphyta specialist, former curator of the Natural History Museum Budapest) and László Lőrinc (biologist and zoologist, Nagyenyed Museum, now Oradea): Mariana Pascu was a lovable person with great soul and heart. Mariana died in sclerosis multiplex in 2011, she suffered lot, but till her last moment, she worked and mentally was fresh. Her last years was very hard, not only her mother died but her partner left her and emigrated to the states. According to the letter of László Lőrinc "when I was at the museum in Sibiu in 2010, she was in very bad condition, she was very skinny and suffered from imbalance but her mind was absolutely intact, and still worked. We miss her very much. Rest in peace- Pax sepulcrum!". Her mother was Hungarian and she spoke both languages (Hungarian and Romanian). Libor Dvorák (Libor Dvorák, Malacologist, Dipterologist and Hymenopterologist). Curator of Mestské Muzeum, Mariánské Lázne. He recorded firstly Dolichovespula adulterina (du Buysson, 1904) from Borsa (Dvorak 2006b). Denis Michez (Mons-Hainaut University, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Belgium) and Connal Eardley (Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa) mention only 1 original data of Melitta wankowiczi (Radoszkowski) from Nagyszeben, Sibiu from Transylvania. Their other data from the Carpathian Basin are only references of old Hungarian authors (Michez and Eardley 2007). Cristina Maria Calefariu (earlier Cristina Maria Ban, 18th of July 1976 Porumbacu de Jos (Alsóporumbák, Unter-Bombach) - ) Cristina after finishing "Octavian Goga" High-School Sibiu, studied at "Lucian Blaga" University, Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences, Section of Ecology and Environment Protection and she received her master degree in animal taxonomy at Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest. Here, Cristina defended her PhD. thesis on the Comparative study of two Apoidea families (Megachilidae and Anthophoridae) of the Romanian fauna: morphology, systematics, distribution, under Dumitru Murariu’s supervision. Before she started her PhD. studies, Cristina Maria Ban had 3 years teaching experience at "Andrei Saguna" Pedagogic College. From 2004, she joined to the "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History, where now, she is the curator and scientific researcher of Hymenoptera collection. She is author of 20 scientific papers and 2 books. About her activity in environmental education: there are regular "Summer Schools" for school children where students could participate in field trips, learning collecting methods and how to recognize and sort various groups of insects. Furthermore, she held 4 conferences for the public within the program series titled "Sunday Meetings". Her greatest scientific achievement is a book and monograph titled: "Megachilidae si Anthophoridae (Apoidea) din fauna Romaniei" (Ban-Calefariu, 2009c). Her faunistic works expands from Maramures (Máramaros) county, through Fagaras (Fogaras) Mts., Piatra Craiului (Királykő Mountains), Defileul Jiului (Zsil valley) till Dobrodgea (Ban-Calefariu 2005,2006a, 2006b, Petrescu et al. 2004, Ban and Tomozei 2006). Her main interest is the wild bee families Megachilidae and Anthophoridae (Ban-Calefariu 2005, 2006b, c, 2008a,b, 2009a, b, c, Ban-Calefariu and Ilie 2009, 2010, Ban-Calefariu and Ljubomirov 2009) but her research interest
