Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
78 Natura Somogyiensis The stations of the early period of his career was the Szabadka hospital than Csantavér, Rácmilitics and Magyarkanizsa. When the Serb-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom formed, Béla Kuthy and his family (his wife Etelka Sztrilich and their 2 sons Antal and Károly) moved to Kiskunhalas where he worked as a dentist (his house was at Alsónádor street 10 of the town) and he lived there till his death. He started his entomological investigation around Kiskunhalas in 1923 (date based on the earliest labels of his collection). Later, his colleague, János Polgár also joined to his collecting trips. His collection (1 cabinet) was preserved till 2013 at the biological collection of the Áron Szilády Grammar School of the Protestant Church of Kiskunhalas. In 2013, the Kuthy collection was transferred to Rippl-Rónai Museum Kaposvár where it was disinfected and rearranged. Ábrahám et al. (2014) published the collected material. Béla Kuthy prepared only one paper on Aculeata listing the Chrysidid fauna of Kiskunhalas in 1942 (Kuthy 1942). This part of his collection was identified by the help of the young László Móczár. In 2013, Zsolt Józan re-identified his Aculeata (mainly Chrysididae) collection. After 70 years later, Zsolt Józan found, that in the Kuthy collection was a nice series of Holopyga minuma Linsenmaier, 1959 which were recognized in that time as new for the science neither by Kuthy nor by Móczár. Hecalus kuthyi Tóth, 1938 (Homoptera) was dedicated to Béla Kuthy. Sándor Gorka (12th October 1878 Ungvár (now Uzghorod) - 10th April 1944 Pécs), biologist, university professor. Sándor Gorka graduated at Kolozsvár as natural history and art teacher and in 1901, he defended his doctoral thesis at Zoology. He moved to Pécs and joined to the Zoological Department of Queen Elizabeth University where he appointed professor 12 years later. He was the first professor of the freshly established Biological Institute of Pécs University. Sándor Gorka was member of Allgemeine Entomologische Gesellschaft and secretary of Association of Hungarian Medical Doctors and Naturalists. He was author of approximately 800 scientific publications. Sándor Gorka described an interesting experiment with toxins of Vespa crabro, Vespula germanica and Vespula vulgaris (Gorka 1898). Paul August Viktor Bliithgen (25th July 1880 Mühlhausen - 2nd September 1967 Naumburg). Jurist was his original profession. Paul studied law in Marburg and later in Berlin. He started his career at magistrate of Rügenwalde. After the Great War, from 1920, he became judge at Court of Naumburg. He finished his career in Halle, as president of City Senate. At the age of 69, he retired at his own request. In entomology, Blüthgen published more than 200 scientific papers. Blüthgen received honorary doctorate in entomology from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He described 7 species and 1 new variation from Hungary, namely: Halictus combinatus Blüthgen, 1921, Sphecodes hun- garicus Blüthgen, 1923, Halictus semitomentosus Blüthgen, 1923, Halictus trichopygus Blüthgen, 1923, Halictus crassepunctatus Blüthgen, 1923, Halictus sajoi Blüthgen, 1923, Nomioides minutissima var. obscurata Blüthgen, 1925, and Nannodynerus hungaricus Blüthgen, 1961 (Blüthgen 1921, 1923a,b, 1925, 1961). Rezső Láng (Rezső Rudolf Láng, hunter and hunter novelist, alias Sólyom (the Falcon), 7th January 1881 Vérteskozma - 25th may 1963 Mosonmagyaróvár). He wrote a popular scientific paper on Vespidae in Természet (The Nature) (journal of Budapest Zoo) (Láng 1937). Sándor Pongrácz (21st April 1888 Budapest - 22nd January 1945 Budapest, entomologist, paleontologist and general director of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, professor of University of Sciences at Debrecen). Humanist and artist (he played music
