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
148 Natura Somogyiensis sions, laboratories, comittees etc. Karl Mazucco is active in fileds of ornithology and entomology either (he even filled the chariman position of the Austrian Society of Ornithology). Karl Mazucco in his several papers with coauthorship of Johanna Ortel (Wien) and Gerald Hölzler (24th November 1970 Judenburg - ) investigated the Aculeata fauna of Niederösterreich and Burgenland and reported species from Neurißhof, Felixdorf, Mödling, Ziersdorf, Hollabrunn, Brack a. d. Leitha, Bad Vöslau, Wolfsthal, Mistelbach a. d. Zaya, Neuenkirchen, Illmitz etc. (Zettel, Hölzler, and Mazucco 2002, Mazucco 2011, Mazucco and Ortel, 2011). With Gerald Hölzler they described Colletes pannonicus Hölzler and Mazucco, 2011 from Niederösterreich and Burgenland (Hölzler and Mazucco 2011). Johann Neumayer, (14th July 1964 Salzburg - ) J. Neumayer studied theology and biology and since 1987, he is the environmental manager of the Archdiocese of Salzburg and freelance biologist. He lives in Elixhausen. Neumayer published the first occurrence of Bombus haematurus Kriechbaumer, 1870 from Austira including Németújvár (now Güssing) from Burgenland (Neumayer 2004). He investigated the Aculeata fauna of National Park Thayatal between 2005 and 2008 and recorded 190 Aculeata species (Neumayer 2010). He is also co-author of the paper on the first occurence of Isodontia mexicana (De Saussure, 1867) in Austria (Wiesbauer et al. 2011). Herbert Franz (23 January 1908 Sopron - 1st August 2002 Mödling, professor emeritius, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien) After his graduation at the high school in Mödling, Herbert Franz studied at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna. After receiving his doctorate he accepted an offer for senior assistant position at Imperial Research Institute for Alpine Agriculture in Admont. After his habilitation at the University of Graz, he was appointed professor of the university. After his short stay in Madrid, he worked for the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna as head of Geology and Soil Science Department. Herbert Franz was exceptionally productive entomologist, during his life, he described 92 genera and more than 3000 species. In Hymenoptera faunistic of the Carpathian Basin, one book of him we sould mention, its title is: Die Hymenopteren des Nordostalpengebietes und seines Vorlandes (Franz 1982). In this monograph, the Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Scolioidea parts were written by Franz Herbert himself.
