Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in the Austrian part of Carpathian Basin from 1760 till present
142 Natura Somogyiensis Sphex boops Schrank, 1781; Apis fulva Schrank, 1781; ^pis bicolor Schrank, 1781; Apis convexa Schrank, 1781; Apis cetii Schrank, 1781 and Apis leucostoma Schrank, 1781. See their current status separately. The young Schrank after finishig the Highschool Leopoldinum in Passau, joined to the Jesuit Order. After a time as a novice in Vienna, he participated in a mission to Brazil - but he had to return for health reasons - he continued his theological career and in 1776, he received the doctor's degree in theology in Vienna. In the same year, he became professor of mathematics and physics at the Lyceum in Amberg (Bavaria) and in 1784 , he became professor at the first Bavarian university in Ingolstadt. After the transfer of the university in 1800 to Landshut, he continued his activity as university lecturer there. Between 1809 and 1832, Schrank was the first director of the Botanical Gardens in Munich. Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (31 May 1755 Etzelwang-28 June 1829 Hersbruck) was a German botanist and entomologist. Member of the Academy of Sciences of Erfurt and also the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina". Panzer was a physician, he practised at Hersbruck later at Nürnberg. His main work is a series of monographs titled Faunae insectorum germanicae initia (Elements of the insect fauna of Germany), published at Nuremberg between 1796 and 1813. It was illustrated by Jacob Sturm (1771— 1848), with more than 2,600 hand-colored plates of individual, lifesize insects. Most of his species has indefinite place of capture, however, few species he described from Wien as they listed separately (Panzer, 1799). Joseph Etienne Giraud (31st January 1820 Briancon - 28th May 1877 Paris). He was a French doctor of medicine and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera. Giraud practised in Vienna and in Paris. He was elecgted to the President of the Société entomologique de France in 1870. His collection is in Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Paris. From Wien he described several nes Aculeata species, mainly wild bees (Giraud, 1856a, 1857, 1861). Hes faunistical and ecological observations from the region around Wien are also valuable (Giraud, 1856b). Gustav Henschel (25th July 1835 Zell bei Zellhof - 17th March 1895 Wien) Professor and head of the Institute for Forestry and Forest Protection of University of Bodenkultur in Wienna. Specialised for insect pest of agricultur and forestry. In 1887/1888 rector of the university. Henschel described Megachile villosa Henschel, 1888 which proved to be a synonym of Megachile genalis Morawitz, 1880. Arnold Förster (20th January 1810 Aachen - 12th August 1884 Aachen). See his biography in the Hungarian part. Förster described 3 Hylaeus species, namely Hylaeus carbonarius Förster, 1871; Hylaeus cofinis Förster, 1871 and Hylaeus inaequalis Förster, 1871 from Wien, Laibach and Piesting (Förster, 1871). Franz Friedrich Kohl (13th January 1851 St. Valentin auf der Haide - 15th December 1924 Traismauer), see his biography in the Hungarian chapter titled: "Aculeata research from 1801 till 1920 in Hungary". Kohl described 2 new Sphecoidea species from Wien region namely: Diphlebus austriacus Kohl, 1888 and Tachysphex austriacus Kohl, 1892 (Kohl, 1888 and 1892). Carl Wilhelm Dalla-Torre (14th July 1850 Kitzbühel - 8th April 1928 Innsbruck). Austrian zoologist (entomologist and ornithologist, he has few papers even on microbi
