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 67 described an interesting harm caused by Pemphedron lethifer Shuck, by drilling wine- branches (Sajó 1891). So far, only one incidental damage on mulberry of Ceratina cyanea Kby. was recorded (Sajó 1894). Károly Sajó described an Oxybelus species, which was accepted as ssp. of Oxyybelus argentatus: Oxybelus argentatus treforti Sajó, 1884 (Sajó 1884). Further interesting faunistic data we may find in Sajó (1883 and 1893). He wrote on the symptoms, physiology and biology of the stings and toxins of bees and wasps (Sajó 1896a) either. Embrik Strand (2nd June 1876 A1 in Hallingdal - 3rd November 1947 Riga). Embrik Strand was arachnologist and entomologist. He studied at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo). His collection is deposited at the university's museum in Oslo, where he worked as conservator from 1901 to 1903. He left Norway for Germany where he continued his studies of zoology at the University of Marburg, and found job at first at Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart than at Tübingen and at Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt and finally at Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After living 20 years in Germany, he left the country for zoology professor status at the University of Riga where he died at his age of 71. Strand in 1909, described 1 or 3 Lasioglossum species from Hungary which were deposited in the Natural History Museum Berlin. Halictus longuloides Strand, 1909 (now it is synonym of Lasioglossum lineare (Schenck, 1870) is the species he described from Hungary (from Kronstadt). The other 2 species have more than indefinite locus typicus "Sizilien oder Ungarn", these are Halictus luteistigmatellus Strand, 1909 which is syn. of. Lasioglossums pauxillum (Schenck, 1853) and Halictus servulellus Strand, 1909 which is syn. of Lasioglossum intermedium (Schenck, 1870). Heinrich Friedrich August Karl Ludwig Friese (4th May 1860 Friesenhaus - 8th September 1948 Schwerin). Organ builder and bee specialist. For us, the most important his 1 year which he spent in Hungary in 1886. He wrote a Hungarian language report on his travel which was published in Rovartani Lapok (Friese 1886). Following the advice of his friend, Géza Horváth, they started their expedition on 22nd of March in Fiume from where he described 4 new Andrena species. From Fiume and Triest, he continued his expedition around Budapest especially on Sas hegy (Sas Hill). He also collected bees in Budaörs, Csepel, Kelenföld, Gellért hegy and Rákos (now, these are parts of the city) and in Kistarcsa. He also visited Pécel and Isaszeg. In middle of July, he took an expedition to Transylvania and South Hungary. In his Transylvanian round-trip he collected bees at Mehádia, Nagyvárad, Kolozsvár, Piski, Rékas, Orsóvá, Temesvár and Fehértemplom. On 10th of August, he left Hungary. The 27 new wild bee species which he described from Hungary is partly a result of his Hungarian travel (Friese 1887) and partly his personal friendship with Sándor Mocsáry who send him further specimens (Friese 1914, 1895a, b, 1888, 1897a 1916, 1917, 1922). In 1893, he published a book, titled "Die Bienenfauna von Deutschland und Ungarn" in which 506 species were listed from Hungary, most of them from the Carpathian Basin (Friese, 1893). His other smaller papers (Friese 1903, 1912, 1897b,c,d) also contain further faunistic data for Hungary. Friese was bom in a wealthy and talented organ builder family. During his school years, Friese was introduced to natural sciences. In his age of 20, while working on organ constructions in Halle-Merseburg, Friese met the influential entomologists Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg and Otto Schmiedeknecht. The later was his particularly important mentor who supported him in specialization for bees. He took collection trips in South France, Spain and Switzerland. After these expeditions, Friese worked as organ builder in Paris and Strassbourg continuing the family tradition. He graduated at the
