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
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 143 ology as well). Dalla-Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck and remained at the university where he became professor of Zoology in 1895. Two varieties of Bombus, he described from the Carpathian Basin, namely Bombus confusus var. paradoxus Dalia Torre, 1882 from Graz and Bombus terrestis var kristophi Dalla-Torre 1882 from (Corsica), Tatra and Niederösterreich (Dalla-Torre, 1982). For the faunistic of Carpathian Basin, his catalogues are important secondary sources, titled: "Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus" (Dalla-Torre 1892, 1894, 1896, 1897). Hans Bischoff (30th November 1889 Berlin - 18th March 1960 Berlin, curator of Hymenoptera and neuroptera of Museum für Naturkunde between 1921 and 1951). He spent his holiday in 1940/41 in Eastern Austria and between 19. 08 and 12. 09. 9f 1940 he collected bees between Weiden and Neusiedl See in Burgenland. As a result of this period, he published one paper on the varieties of Dasypoda argentata Pz. (Bischoff, 1943). Adolf Hoffmann Austrian Coleoptera specialist died in 1945 in a concentration camp. Hoffman lived in Wien (14) Nobilegasse 20. He was active in publication between 1907 and 1935. We don't know much about his life. He has only one paper of Hymenoptera, probably it is his last paper: "Neue Chrysididen". In this paper he described 2 new Chrysididae variety from Hainburg (and also from Vienna) (Hoffmann 1935). Karl Mazek-Fialla, (1936 - ) Wien high school professor later director of Bodenschutzes (Soil protection) and Chief Foresrty Comissioner in Niederösterreich. In one paper, Mazek-Fialla studied the life history of Sceliphron destillatorium Iliig. (Mazek-Fialla 1936). Karl Kusdas (23 February 1900 Linz - 7th May 1974) after finishing his studies, he joined to the Austrian Federal Railway, where he worked till his retirement. As amateur entomologist he collected and studied numerous groups of insects in Austria and abroad. In his work on the Palaearctic Cleptidae, he mentioned few record from Burgerland, Fertő-tó (Neusiedler See) (Kusdas 1968). In one of his papers (Kusdas 1956), he publishes data on Hedychridium krajniki Balthazar from Stúrovo (Párkány), Kőszeg, Keszthely, Budapest and Podcertek. Arnulf Molitor (Perchtoldsdorf / Vienna) coleoptera specialist, his privat collection probably lost. For the identification of the Molitor Apoidea data Pittioni and R. Schmidt are responsible (for Chrysididae probably himself). He lived in Perchtoldsdorf. Amulf Moliter described his observations on the behaviour of Philantus triangulum F. in Niederösterreich (Upper Austria) and Burgenland (Molitor 1932). In his paper, titled "Versuche betreffend die „Rotblindheit" solitärer Bienen" Molitor provides faunistic data of various wild bees, some of them (from Guntramsdorf) are form the Carpathian Basin. He also studied the phenology and ecology of Chrysidae species in Niederösterreich and Burgenland (Molitor 1935, 1937). Hans Malicky (17th July 1935 Wien -) Trichoptera specialist living in Lunz am See. Malicky collected bees especially in Eastern Austria. He studied zoology and botany at the University of Wien; received his PhD and habilitated in the same university either. Hans Malicky was the zoologist of Burgenland, he published numerous papers not only on vertebrata but also on various orders of insects, mainly on lepidoptera, he has even botanical paper as well. In one of his papers, we may find wild bee data from Wiener Neustadt (Malicky 1975).
