Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)

History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920

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and painted paintings), thinker, scholar and museum director. His death was caused by an incoming garnet during the siege of Budapest, while he stayed at his bathroom where he regularly worked instead of retreating to the basement. His grave in the Farkasréti Cemetery at Budapest was eradicated. In Hymenopterological point of view, his monograph on fossil insect is the most important, titled: "Die Fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-Fauna". In this paper, he mentioned a fossil Apidae species from Piski (Transylvania) (Upper Miocene?) this undescribed species has wing venation and abdominal apex similar to Osmia species, but its large, merged eyes more for Apis. He also provided a figure and further description of Sphex gigantea Heer, 1867 from Radoboi (Croatia) lower Miocene (PONGRÁCZ 1928).

Jenő Győrffy (30th January 1882 Köveskál - 22nd October 1970 Budapest) Entomologist, agricultural engineer. Jenő Győrffy graduated at Kalvinist High School of Pápa than finished the university in Budapest where he received teaching degree in natural history and geography. He started his career in Békés as high school teacher. After 2 years teaching he started studying again, this time in Keszthely at Academy of Agriculture. After receiving his second degree, he was appointed researcher of Entomological Station Budapest where he established an entomological collection. He married Paula Horváth (daughter of Géza Horváth). In 1933, he had to retire for a while because of serious eye problem. As his health condition improved, he returned back to Meteorological Service of the Plant Protection Office. After the WW2, he worked for the Coleoptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. In 1917, in Gyenesdiás, he saw Vespula germanica individuals preying common flies (Musca domestica), he provided detailed description on the hunting method of wasps (Győrffy 1917).

Emil Stoeckhert (10th May 1888 Kehlbach- 1943) German hymenopterologist. Emil Stoeckhert lived in Abensberg where he was the notary of his town (after the posthumous work of Stoeckhert and Pittioni, 1950). His and his brother's, Ferdinand Stoeckhert's collections are deposited in München Zoologisches Staatssammlung. Stoeckhert described two species from Hungary, namely Nomada piccioliana ssp. jurassica Stoeckhert, 1941 from Simontomya and Andrena alutacea Stoeckhert, 1942 from Transylvania "Szankesd" (Stoeckhert 1941, 1942). Stoeckhert wrote the Nomada part in Schmiedeknecht, 1930, titled: "Die Hymenopteren Nord und Mitteleuropas". In this work, he described all the Nomada and Andrena species of the region, including those which were described by in major part by Sándor Mocsáry and in smaller part by Otto Schmiedeknecht (the "author" ofthese are Schmiedeknecht only, however, Schmiedeknecht and Stoeckhert very honestly indicated, that he received the specimens, descriptions and names from Sándor Mocsáry).

Lajos Varga (26th January 1890 Désakna - 10th may 1963 Sopron. Zoologist and hydrobiologist). Lajos Varga graduated at King Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár and started to work there. During the WW1, he fought on Russian and Italian battlefields. After his military service, he married in Sopron where he started to teach in one of the local elementary schools (namely Rákóczi Ferenc reáliskola) where he became director. Parallel with this occupation, he started to work for the Botanical Institute of Sopron College of Mining and Forestry (successor of Selmecbánya Academy, see the entry on Scopoli and Poda). In this College, he worked till his retirement. Meanwhile, he received a second university degree at Szeged University in hidrobiology. He was correspondent member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This membership was terminated during the communist