Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Early History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from the 16th till the 19th century (1560–1800)
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 65 Zoological Conference hosted in Budapest in 1927. He has one paper on the insect fauna of the Hungarian salty and alkaline sodic areas. In this work he mentions one Hymenoptera species, namely Stizus fasciatus (Fabricius, 1798) fas S. terminális Dhlb.j (Horváth 1903). Robert du Buysson (6th May 1861 Brout-Vemet - 16th March 1946 Saint-Rémy-la- Varenne) French botanist and entomologist, preparator of the Laboratoire de Zoologie du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Robert du Buysson wrote the Chrysididae part in the series titled "Species de Hyménoptéres d'Europe et d'Algérie" (Buysson 1886). Numerous Chrysididae species are mentioned here from Hungary after Mocsáry's works. Andrey Petrovich Semenov Tian-Shansky (21st June 1866 St. Petersburg - 8th March 1942 St. Petersburg). Andrey Tian-Shansky studied first at the History and Philology, then at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg University where he completed his studies in zoology and botany as well. After his graduation he took expeditions to the Trans-Caspian region and was employed by the Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (later Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences), later became honorary member of the Russian Entomological Society where he hold the president status either. In the "Revisio Hyemnopterorum Musei zoologici Academiae Cesareae Scientiarum Petropolitanae I. Genus Cleptes Latr.", he described Cleptes Mocsarii Semenow, 1892 from Hungary (Semenov 1891). After his retirement, he continued his researches. During WW2, Andrei Petrovich remained in besieged St.Petersburg (in that time its name was Leningrad) until the last days of his life. Andrei Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shan died of pneumonia on March 8, 1942. His burial place is unknown. Jenő Vángel (16th April 1864 Perkáta - 29th December 1918 Budapest), zoologist, professor of Budapest University of Sciences, later director of Pedagogical College of Budapest, called "Pedagogicum". Vángel graduated and completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Sciences, Budapest. He published the list of collected insects by his students from various parts of the historical Hungary (Vángel 1905). In this time, he was professor of nature history at the Pedagogical College in Budapest. His students (like Miklós Móczár, will be discussed later) had to prepare and submit a small insect collection. These collections were deposited in the college and their identifications were reviewed by experts of the Natural History Department of Hungarian National Museum (later Hungarian Natural History Museum). The identification of sawflies, bees and wasps were reviewed by Sándor Mocsáry. Franz Friedrich Kohl (13th January 1851 St. Valentin auf der Haide - 15th December 1924 Traismauer) was an Austrian entomologist and folksong researcher, one of the founder of the German Folk Song Club in Vienna. Franz Friedrich Kohl studied at Franziskanergymnasium Bolzano. He worked as teacher at first in Bolzano and then in Innsbruck. In 1880, he gave up teaching and moved to Genf, than Munich and eventually to Vienna. After five years of unpaid voluntary work, he received job at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Kohl described 3 species from Hungary, namely Tachysphex pygidialis Kohl, 1883; Tachysphex mocsaryi Kohl, 1884 and Spilomena mocsaryi Kohl, 1898 (Kohl 1883, 1884, 1889). The followings monographs of Kohl contain sporadic, frequently indefinite, but sometimes more precise (Mehádia, Budapest, Grebenácz, Kecskemét) faunistic data from Hungary: Kohl 1888, 1890a,b, 1906, 1915, 1918.
