Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
76 Natura Somogyiensis Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (7th December 1907 Elberfeld - 21st July 1970 Tucuman, Argentina) German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist. Weyrauch obtained his PhD at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and worked from 1938 in Peru as entomologist at the Agricultural Research Station (Estación Agricola de La Molina) in Lima. After 10 years, he worked for the Museo Nációnál de História Natural of Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima as professor of zoology and genetics. For a period, he also worked as professor of Agricultural Zoology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Lima. In 1962, he emigrated to Argentina and became a professor at the Institute Miguel Lillo in Tucumán. He died of heart attack in Tucuman, Argentina. In his paper, titled "Zur Systematik und Biologie der palaearktischen Polistinen" (Weyrauch 1939) mentioned Polistes opinabilis Kohl from Hungary and North Italy, this species proved to be a synonym of the common Polistes nimpha Christ. Lujza Pillich (1914 Simontornya - 2012 Budapest) continued his father's work (Ferenc Pillich, discussed previously) with one paper mentioning further bees and wasps species around her native town. She published her single paper on her entomological research titled: "Mein erster Versuch" (Pillich 1930). In this paper she mentioned numerous Aculeata species mainly from Simontornya and surroundings. Lujza Pillich initially lived in Simontornya with his husband, Imre (Müller) Hidasy (chief notary of Gyünk, Tamási and later of Dombóvár), from Simontornya they moved to Gyünk and after the second world war to Budapest. During the socialistt era, his husband was in prison for a while because of his high position in the public administration that he held between the 2 world wars. After the WW2, Lujza Pillich received a job at the Budapest Creamery (Tejcsarnok), later she worked for various museums, finally, she worked at the Tourist Information of the Buda Castle Museum where she could utilise her excellent German and English. His husband died in 1985. They had one son: Imre, 1935 and one daughter, Erika 1932. She was buried in the kalvinist cementry of her hometown, Simontornya. Gyula Kadocsa (originally Gyula Kauffman, 20th February 1880 Magyarkimle - 26th January 1962 Budapest, director of the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian academy of Sciences). Gyula Kadocsa finished his secondary school at Győr than graduated at Mosonmagyaróvár Agricultural Academy and worked there for a while. He moved to Budapest and joined to the National Entomological Station (later Plant Protection Research Institute) where he became director. Gyula Kadocsa is author of 1200 scientific papers and books. One paper he has on the control of harmful Vespidae species titled "Control of wasps" (Kadocsa 1935). László Haller geography and natural history teacher in Tihany, from 1937 in Gyüngyós. Probably later, he moved to Budapest because high number of his papers and particularly photos described and illustrated the life of Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. László Haller wrote 2 papers on the life history and ethology of Vespa crabro L. (Haller 1937, 1944). In 1941, he was soldier ordered to the Russian battlefields. He was active in publications between 1937 and 1944. After 1944, neither any publication from dr. László Haller nor any report on him we could find, probably he died in WW2. Aladár Vágó (?) He was a friend of Lajos Bíró, teacher at Arena street primary school in Budapest (Arena street 12). He lived in Szigetszentmiklós. Vágó was the librarian of the Hungarian Tourist Association of Teachers either and later vice president of this organization from 1906. He published papers in different topics like ethnography, tourism and entomology as well. Vágó with Lajos Bíró found Chrysis sybarita Fürst, (valid as Chrysis graellsi Guer.) in the nest of Osmia rufa L. in Szigetszentmiklós (VÁGÓ 1912).
