Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
88 Natura Somogyiensis collection was published in 1958 and 1963 by Aleksandar Rafailovic and Gyula Szöllősi (Rafailovic and Szöllösi 1958, 1963). See their biographies and the story of the Taupert collection in the Serbian part of this monograph. Barnabás Nagy (1921 Szamoskér - ) Orthoptera specialist of the Plant Protection Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He started his university studies at Debrecen University. In his early stage of career, he was professor assistant at the Zoological Museum of Kolozsvár University (King Franz Josef University). Isophya nagyi (SzöVÉNYi et al. 2012), a new grasshopper species described from the Kelemenhavasok (Muntii Calimani) was dedicated to him for his 90th birthday. This species was collected by the researchers of Budapest University of Sciences and the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Barnabás Nagy was responsible for the compilation of the Aculeata part of the "Handbook of the Plant Protection Zoology". In this book, he discusses 11 species mainly Vespidae and Megachilidae species describing their life history and the control of these insect pests where necessary (Nagy 1994). Heinrich Wolf (24th April 1924 Siegen - ) (See his biography in the Czech part of this monograph) described Anoplius pannonicus Wolf, 1965 from Hungary which proved to be synonym of Pompilus piliventris Morawitz, 1889 (Wolf 1965). Jenő Papp (20th May 1933 Budapest - ) Till 1969, curator of Bakony Museum of Nature History in Zirc, later till his retirement curator of the hymenoptera collection at Hungarian National History Museum, Braconid specialist. With Zsolt Józan (teacher at Memye elementary school, Aculeata specialist), they published the Hymenoptera material of Síkfőkút Malaise trap (Papp and Józan 1995). In 2 papers, Jenő Papp published faunistic data of rare Apoidea species from Bakony Mts., these data are completed with maps showing the distribution of these species (Papp 1963, 1965). István Szarukán (1935 Miskolc -) professor emeritius of Plant Protection Department of University of Agriculture at Debrecen. After his early years in state farms in Debrecen and Berettyóújfalu and 1 year employment at Plant Protection Station of Hajdú-Bihar County, István Szarukán was employed by Plant Protection Department of the University of Agriculture in Debrecen. István Szarukán was co-author in one conference paper of Miklós Tóth investigating the effect of natural and synthetic lures in traps designed for Vespidae (Tóth and Szarukán 2004). Klaus Warncke (14th May 1937 Neusterlitz-2nd January 1993 Cairo). Ornithologist and bee specialist. After finishing the high school in Braunschweig, Klaus started his university studies in Mainz than Freiburg, finally he graduated at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and got teacher-degree in biology, geography and chemistry. Klaus Warncke completed his doctoral thesis in Munich University. He started to teach in Hilpoltstein, Schrobenhausen and finally in Dachau. Warncke died with his second wife Christa in car accident in Cairo. In Hungarian point of view, he has 3 important papers: In "Die Wildbienen Mitteleuropas ihre gültigen Namen und ihre Verbreitung", Wamcke attempted to identify few Apoidea species described from the Carpathian Basin: Austria and Hungary by Christ and Poda. However, this identifications are controversial with the results of other authors. According to opinion of Wamcke, Apis minima Poda, 1761 identical with Habropoda tarsata (Spinola, 1838) and Apis (Bombus) monacha Christ, 1791 identical with Bombus equestris (Fabricius, 1783). From Erdőbénye (Hungary) Wamcke described Andrena pontica Warncke, 1972 (Warncke 1972). In his revision on Stelis Pz., we find sporadic but valuable Hungarian data (Warncke 1992).
