Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 81 productive years of him as specialist of Chalcidoidea. He described 352 new species and 49 new genera and published several monographs (in ser. Fauna Hungáriáé) on the Chalcidoidea fauna of Hungary. In his early period, he published one paper on Chrysididae. It contains list of Chrysididae of his collecting trips between 1933 and 1939 from Feldebrő, Debrecen, Kalocsa, Rém, Kecel, Foktő and Kőrösmező, listing 40 Chrysididae species in 1942 (Erdős 1942). Franz Maidl (6th April 1887 Wien - 18th September 1951 Mödling) graduated in 1906, at University of Vienna in zoology and received his PhD in 1911. Maidl worked for the K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum where he specialized under the guidance of F. F. Kohl for Hymenoptera and initially worked on genus Xylocopa. He also spent short time at Cornell University in Ithaca (USA) and brought from there rich insect material. In 1949, Maidl was appointed administrative director of the Natural History collections. Franz Maidl described Mimesapannonica Maidl, 1914 from Budapest (Maidl 1914). In his work, titled "Beiträge zur Hymenopterenfauna Dalmatiens, Montenegros und Albaniens", he indicates the Hungarian occurrence of 65 different species (Maidl 1922). Few Hungarian Xylocopa data from Hungary is published in Maidl 1912. Mihály Rotarides (13th June 1897 Gyulafehérvár - 19th July 1950 Budapest). He was malacologist and paleontologist, graduated at Kolozsvár, Ferenc József (Kaiser und König Franz Josef) University of Sciences. He started his scientific career as an assistant professor at Szeged University of Sciences (forced relocation of Ferenc József University to Szeged after the dissolution of Austria and Hungary). Later he joined to Limnological Research Institute at Tihany (Lake Balaton). From 1932, he returned back to Szeged, where he became professor of the university. He finished his career at the Zoological Department of Hungarian Natural History Museum, Malacological collection. The "Daten zur Biologie von Sceliphron destillatorium Iliig. (Hym.) auf der Halbinsel Tihany" is a masterwork of Aculeata ethology (Rotarides 1934). Jan Wlodzimierz Noskiewicz (8th October 1890 Sanok - 27th August 1963 Wroclaw, librarian of Dzieduszycki Museum at Lemberg-Lwow, later professor of zoogeography at Wroclaw University, bee specialist). Noskiewicz graduated in Yaroslavl and under the influence of his teacher, Kazimierz Piatkowski, started studying insects. He continued his studies at Jagellonian University Krakow then moved to Lemberg (Lvov), where he studied zoology under the supervision of Joseph Nusbaum. After few years teaching in secondary schools of Lvov and Krasnymstawie, he became librarian-researcher of Dzieduszycki Museum (parallel, he continued his career as high school teacher either). After World War II., Noskiewicz became head of Invertebrate Zoology Department of Dzieduszycki Museum and the local pedagogical college as well. In 1946, he was repatriated from Lemberg to Wroclaw, where he became manager of the Department of Systematics and Zoogeography of Wroclaw University till his retirement. In 1939, he described 4 new bee species from Hungary, mainly from the Pillich collection, namely: Andrena simontornyella Noskiewicz, 1939, Andrena pillichi Noskiewicz, 1939, Andrena paula Noskiewicz, 1939 and Nomada alfkeni Noskiewicz, 1939 (see their current status separately). In 1936, he described Colletes inespectatus Noskiewicz, 1936 and in 1962, Stel is hungarica Noskiewicz, 1962 both from Hungary. Pál Zoltán Örösi (14th January 1904 Székelyudvarhely — 13th April 1986 Budapest) biologist, entomologist, specialized for apiculture. He graduated at Budapest University of Sciences and started his career at University of Debrecen and University of Kolozsvár.
