Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XVIII. - Natura Somogyiensis 34. / Miscellanea 18. (Kaposvár, 2020)
Haris, A.: Sawflies of the Bakony Mountains and the Balaton Uplands (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)
74 Natura Somogyiensis sycamore maple and European ash. The pine forests, planted in the last 100 years, are also significant part of the vegetation. Next to Fenyőfő, the pine forest is native. Here, there is a special micro-landscape with low nutrient sandy soil maintaining this special habitat. This is the only one natural pine vegetation in the lower regions of the Carpathian Basin. Material and methods The studied material are deposited in 3 collections. The largest is the Bakony Natural History Museum in Zirc. From this collection, 1938 specimens of 197 species are identified by the author in 2019 and further 5137 specimens of280 species were checked and reidentified. Further 800 specimens are deposited in the Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár and approximately 600 specimens in Budapest (Hungarian Natural History Museum). For identification, Zhelochovtsev's (1988) work on the sawflies of the European part of the former USSR was consulted. We also used some recent revisions and works to make the identifications even more precise (Achterberg and Aartsen 1986, Blank & Ritzau 1998, Haris 2001, 2006, Haris and Gyurkovics 2014, Koch 1988a and b, Prous 2012, Prous et al. 2017, Taeger 1987, 1988, 2002 and Taeger 2015). Whenever it was necessarry (subfamily Nematinae and genus Dolerus), male genitals were dissected and studied. For the discussion of distribution of sawflies, we consulted the book of Roller and Haris (2008) titled Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research augmented by other faunistic records from the Carpathian Basin (Ambrus 1979, Roller 1999,2000, Roller et al. 2006, Haris 2001,2009, 2010,2011,2012,2018,2019; Haris and Gyurkovics 2012, Balázs and Haris 2019). The places of captures of each species were checked and revised. We completed the missing data, where the relevant locations were not given, but the ones of the meadows, hills or valleys were published only. On the other hand, several indefinite locations can’t be given precisely. These locations are discussed below: Cuha valley (Cuha-völgy). In several cases, the collectors labelled the insects only as Bakony: Cuha valley neglecting to give the exact location. In these cases, we should consider the following: Cuha valley is the valley of the Cuha brook. Its total length is 81 km, the brook flows through the area of the following municipialities: Eplény, Olaszfalu, Zirc, Porva, Bakonyszentlászló, Réde and Bakonybánk. Gerence-valley (Gerence-völgy). Similar to the case above, it is also an indefinite record resulted by improper labelling of the collectors in the 60’s and 70’s. Gerence valley is the valley of the Gerence brook. The lenght of this brook is 57 km and flows through the following municipialities: Bakonybél, Hárskút, Pénzesgyőr, Takácsi and Bakonykoppány. For the host plants record, the Liston Compendium of European sawflies was the most used monograph (Liston 1995) augmented with other papers like Chevin and Hamon 2010, Macek 2012, Schedl 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1987, 2003. The higher classification of sawflies applied in this work follows the Hymenoptera part of Fauna Europaea (Achterberg 2013). Most of the specimens were collected by Sándor Tóth and Jenő Papp. Other collectors were Levente Ábrahám, Attila Haris, Előd Kondorosy, Mária Csiby, Ágota Kasper, Lajos Zombori, Béla Kalivoda, Csaba Kutasi, László Móczár, József Erdős, Zsuzsanna
