Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Aculeata collections in and around the Carpathian Basin
178 Natura Somogyiensis species. The major contribution has Dr. Aristita Goaga (Dima) who worked in this museum till 2003, and now Bogdan Tomozei, her successor, improves the collection. Further Aculeata specimens are donated by Dinu Traian Sever Paraschivescu. Currently the collection is in a revision process and as an output a catalogue will be published next year. The collection represents the Moldova region, but also there are specimens collected from Dobrogea, Muntenia, Oltenia, Banat and Transilvania. They are no type specimens in this collection. There are other museums with small number of Aculeata in their collections, these are: Muzeul de Stiinte Naturale din Roman, Muzeul Vrancei: Sectia de Stiintele Naturii in Focsani and Muzeul Stiintele Naturii Oltenia in Craiova. Ukraine Lviv, State Museum of Natural History The former Dzieduszycki Museum founded by count Wlodzimierz Dzieduszycki Polish landowner and scientist in 1855. The most famous hymenopterologist of the museum was Noskiewicz. The total entomological collection of the museum is 170 000 specimen, mostly coleoptera and lepidoptera. The present specialist of the museum is Irene Konowalova. Published output: Noskiewicz, M. 1865: Insecta Haliciae Musei Dzieduszyckiani Krakow, Universitatis Jagellonicae. Museum of Zoology of Uzhgorod National University The Museum was established in 1946. The entomological collection contains insects dominantly collected from the Ukrainian Carpaths. There are approximately 100 000 specimens in the entomological collection. There are no types. The present curator is Oleksandr Bokotey. Kiev, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology is the collection of the Ukrainien National Academy of Sciences established in 1919. Most of the Apoidea were collected by Osytshnjuk partly from the Ukrainian Carpathians. The type collection is rich but no types of Aculeata from the Carpathian Basin. The Aculeata of the Carpathian Basin are not separated from the other region of Ukraine. Otherwise the Aculeata collection is small, doesn't exceed the 1800 specimens. Poland Krakow, Museum of Natural History and Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences The Institute was founded in 1865, as the Physiographic Commission by the Krakow Scientific Society. The Natural History Museum is an integrant part of the Institute, was founded at the same time under the original name of Physiographic Museum. The Polish Aculeata collection (about 2 000 specimens) consists partly historical specimens from Galicia collected by Radoskowski, Wierzejski, Stobiecki, Fudakowski, Nowicki, Niezabitowski and also subrecently collected specimens by Miroslawa Dylewska, Andrzej Kosiór, and Waldemar Celary. No types of Aculeata are deposited here from the Carpathian Basin.
