Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
98 Natura Somogyiensis at Keszthely Faculty of Veszprém University (during this time the universities were reorganized) on ecology of wheat sawflies (Dolerus, Pachynematus spp.) under the supervision of Gyula Sáringer. After few months at Marcali Museum I started to work for Göncöl Foundation. Flere, I studied Aculeata in the frame of a project to explore the natural values of a planned National Park. In this time I completed 5 research reports (FIaris 1993, 1995a, 1996a, b and a summary report). The results of this works was published only 20 years later, in 2015 (Haris 2015). After my project is finished at Göncöl Foundation, I worked for several companies like IBM Székesfehérvár, Larus Holding, General Electric etc. but I didn't continue to study Aculeata. In these years I spent 1-1 months in various museums in Stockholm, Madrid and Leiden financed by different EU projects (Highlat, Biodlberia and Synthesys). Subrecently in 2012 and 2013,1 collected Aculeata species in Sicily (mainly in Monti Nebrodi and Milazzo) and in Libya (in Marsa El Brega). After the terrorists occupied the site in Libya where I worked (Lifeco) I had to return home. In the last 25 years, I studied dominantly Symphyta, only few works I have on Aculeata bees and wasps, 1 of them is a popular scientific paper on leafcutter bees (Haris 1995b). Paolo Rosa was bom in Milan (Italy) in 1974. His father, Vittorio Rosa, was an entomologist and deeply influenced the interest of the young Paolo in natural sciences. Their first expeditions to the rainforests of River Amazon forest dates back to 1986. Their field research continued in South America, in Africa and in Asia. In 2001, Paolo graduated in Natural Sciences at University of Pavia and during his studies he opened his own private entomological company, specialized in organising temporary exhibitions in museums, universities and parks and writeing popular science books and scientific papers. With Mattias Forshage (Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby, Swedish Museum of Natural History), Juho Paukkunen (Aculeata specialist, Finnish Museum of Natural History) and Villu Soon (Natural History Museum and Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu) they described a new Cleptes species from Hungary, Cleptes striati- pleuris (Rosa et al. 2015). The specimens were collected by Z. Nyíró in 2005 by Malaise trap and they were deposited in the collection of Tartu University. Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszky (22nd April 1984 Dombóvár - ) Anikó graduated at Faculty of Veterinary Science, Budapest of Szent István (King Saint Stephen) University in applied zoology. Five years later, she defended her PhD thesis in Gödöllő, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the same university. Now, she is research associate of Ecological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Vácrátót. Before this, she had shorter projects at Hungarian Natural History Museum, at Georg-August University in Göttingen (DAAD Scholarship) and also at Wiirtzburg University. She is member of the Hungarian Biological Society, Hungarian Ecological Society and Society for Conservation Biology. Anikó works in various research groups, her coauthors: Rita Földesi (Syrphyd researcher, applied ecology, Szent István (King Saint Stephen) University), András Báldi (11th October 1965 Budapest - , Ecological Research Center, leader of her research group, DSc.), Ádám Körösi (Animal Ecology Research Group of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, specialized for butterfly ecology, previously, he worked for the Lepidoptera collection of the Natural History Museum, Budapest) László Somay (Ecological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, research assistant), Zoltán Elek (research associate, Ecological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Viktor Markó, (agricultural engineer, plant protection specialist, reader of Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Horticultural Science), Ákos Varga (PhD student, Corvinus University of Budapest,
