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

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Maximilian Schwarz (30th August 1934 Wien - ). After finishing the elementary school, the young Maximilian had to join to the army during the WW2. After leaving it, he moved to Linz. Maximilian Schwarz did several expeditions to Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Crete, Sicily, Turkey, South Africa, Namibia, Spain and North America frequently with his colleagues Kusdas, Wamcke, J. Gusenleitner, Schmidt and Pulawski. These expeditions resulted the largest private collection in Austria which exceeds the 140 000 specimen. Since 1980, on his own initiative, he started the entomological period titled "Entomofauna". Maximilian Schwarz is the publisher and owner of this and this magazine was originally printed in their own print shop placed in the basement of his house.

With László Móczár, they compiled the fauna-catalogue for genera Nomada, Ammobates, Pasites and Parammobates (Móczár and Schwarz 1968) and Sphecodes (Móczár and Schwarz 1970). Maximilian Schwarz revised the Nomada species described by Otto Schmiedeknecht including those which he described from Hungary (Schwarz 2015). Also, he described one Nomada species from Turkey and Hungary, namely Nomada platythorax Schwarz, 1981 (Schwarz 1981).

Massimo Olmi (13th October 1942 - ) Full Professor of Agricultural Entomology at University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), Catholic University of Mozambique (Cuamba, Mozambique) and Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo, Mozambique). He retired in 2009. Massimo specialized for world Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae. He processed the European species of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae for Fauna Europaea. He is author of more than 300 papers, including six books on Dryinidae and Embolemidae. In his monograph titled "A Revision of the Dryinidae'' and it's supplement (Olmi 1984, 1990), he revised the species described by Kieffer from Hungary. Additional, sporadic Hungarian data we may find in Olmi (1998a). Massimo Olmi took part in the project of investigation of the fauna and flora of the Hungarian national parks and wrote 2 papers, one on the Bükk and the other on the Aggtelek National Park (Olmi 1992, 1993). He described 2 new species from Hungary, namely Prioranteon biroi Olmi, 1984 and Bocchus lauteren Olmi, 1998 (Olmi 1984 and 1998b).

Pál Benedek (1943, Gönc - ) DSc., Professor of Mosonmagyaróvár Faculty of University of West Hungary, where he originally graduated as agricultural engineer. Earlier, he spent 25 years at the Hungarian Plant Protection Service. Pál Benedek is member of the International Bee Research Association, International Commission of Plant-Bee Relationships, Hungarian Association of Agricultural Sciences and the International Society of Horticultural Science. Author of more than 300 scientific papers including 4 books. His interest in entomology spams the faunistics and systematics of Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, faunistics of Odonata, forecast of insect pests and pollination of orchards and alfalfa. Benedek recorded Passloecus clypealis Faester, 1947 firstly for the fauna of Hungary (Benedek 1966a) and studied the biology of the following species: Pemphredon austriacus Kohl, 1888, Nitela spinolai Latreille, 1809, Trypoxylon figulus (Linnaeus, 1758), Passaloecus turionum Dahlbom, 1844, Diodontus minutus (Fabricius, 1793), Spilomena troglodytes (Vander Linden, 1829) and Rhopalum davipes (Linné, 1758) (Benedek 1966a). Also, he investigated the Sphecoidea fauna of Bakony Mountains (Central Transdanubia in Hungary) from where he recorded 161 species (Benedek 1979) and their flower visiting habits (Benedek 1968a). Benedek recorded firstly Diodontus dahlbomi Morawitz, 1864 for the Carpathian Basin (this species proved to be a synonym name of D. medius Dhlb., 1842 which had already been recorded earlier) and Harpactus turn idus (Panzer, 1801) for the fauna of Hungary. He described