Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
92 Natura Somogyiensis Arkady Stephanovitch Leley (25th August 1946 Belarus - ) With co-authorship of József Muskovits, they described Smicromyrme pilisensis Muskovits and Leley, 2010 from Hungary (Muskovits and Leley 2010). The description is based on 31 specimens from Pilisborosjenő: Malomdűlő in 2007 and 2008, collected by József Muskovits. Unfortunately, the species hasn't been captured in other place till now, and the known habitat has already destroyed. According to Leley's English self-biography: "7 received my undergraduate training at Kazakh State University, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. I was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok with a major in entomology (taxonomy, systematic, phytogeny, evolution), and received my Ph.D. degree in 1978 and DSc. degree in 1993. Iam professor in entomology since 2001. At the Institute of Biology and Sciences, I served as a junior scientist, and as a senior scientist. I was appointed head of the Entomology Laboratory in 1989 and continue to serve in that position. Currently I am supervisor of postgraduate student who study the bees.” In his monograph, titled "Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of the Palaearctic region" he revised the Fabricius species described from Hungary (Leley 2002). Lajos Tanács (25th November 1944 Budapest - ) professor of Szeged University, Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Sciences and Environmental Protection at Hódmezővásárhely. Lajos Tanács graduated at Attila József University of Sciences at Szeged and received secondary school teacher degree in biology and chemistry. For 2 years, he worked for Endre Ady secondary school as a teacher and assistant director of the school-dorm. Lajos Tanács studied and described the wild bee pollinators of alfalfa cultures on sandy and clay soils, their population density, pollination activity, bionomics, species composition. His papers also discuss of alfalfa cultures and their pollinators in environmental point of view. The title of his PhD. thesis: " Wild bee communities of alfalfa fields around Szeged." (Tanács 1974a, 1977a, 1999a, b, Tanács and Benedek 2Ö04, 2005, 2010, Tanács et al. 2007,2008, 2010, Tanács, Benedek and Bodnár 2008, Tanács, Benedek and Móczár 2009). Other field of his research is the role of wild bees in the pollination of onion (Tanács et al. 2008, Tanács and Benedek 2007). Beyond alfalfa cultures, he also investigated the Apoidea communities of ruderal spots around agricultural areas studying the influencing biotic and abiotic factors, community associations and ecological conditions. It is more or less connected to his other important field of scientific work: the apoidea faunistics. He joined to the environmental research programs of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. During his faunistic works, he described a new species for science from Hungary (Tanács, 1985a) and 14 new species for the fauna of the Carpathian Basin. Lajos Tanács made faunistic investigation on the following areas: Asotthalom and Zsombó, Tisza-Dam, Lower Tisza (River Theis), Tisza flood area, Hortobágy, Bugac, Kisköre water reservoir, Tisza valley, Bükk National Park and Aggtelek National Park (Tanács 1974b, 1977b, 1975, 1979a, b, 1981, 1982, 1987a, b, 1992, Tanács and Gulyás 1986, Tanács and Józan 1993, 1999). Lajos Tanács also performed ecological and anatomical investigation on hymenoptera (Tanács 1995, Benedeczky et al. 1990). Alexander Valentinovich Antropov Department of Entomology, Zoological Museum of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, senior researcher and curator of Hymenoptera. He graduated and defended his PhD thesis at Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov University. His self biography was published in Sphecos in 1983: "I was born in 1955 in Dzerzhinsk (Gorky district). In two years my parents left for Moscow where I have been living since then. From 1963 to 1973 I have been studying at school.
