Nógrádi Sára – Uherkovich Ákos: Magyarország tegzesei - Dunántúli Dolgozatok Természettudományi Sorozat 11. (Pécs, 2002)
11. Függelék
NÓGRÁDI S. és UHERKOVICH Á.: MAGYARORSZÁG TEGZESEI (TRICHOPTERA) 373 increase in the number of species from 1500 up to almost 10 000 by the turn of the new century/millennium. As it has already been published, the number of unknown species can run up to five to ten thousand. Since our recent work is not a taxonomical one, we neither give detailed taxonomic contributions nor discuss all taxonomic units. Chapter 3 (History of research) deals with the history of research in Hungary, with the most outstanding persons having dealt with caddisflies in Hungary being mentioned, and their most important papers on Hungarian fauna being cited. Here we must to point out some names. The first summary was compiled by S. Mocsáry who gave the occurrence data of about 150 species within the territory of “historical” Hungary (Mocsáry 1900). In the 1930s Dr. J. Sátori dealt with caddisflies and published some papers with many erroneous data (however, some of these were corrected by himself later). An amateur collector, J. Remetey collected, preserved and determined caddisflies mostly in the 1940s and 1950s; his collection was later housed in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. He never published papers, but this collection contains many important species which have disappeared since then. S. Újhelyi was the greatest scientist of caddisflies during the last century. He collected a rich material mostly around Budapest, in the Northern Mountains (Mátra, Bükk and Börzsöny Mts.), and later in west Hungary as well. He published the results of his most important field works (ÚJHELYI 1974, 1979, 1981a, 1981b, 1982, 1985), as well as the revision of the Hungarian species in each caddisfly taxon (ÚJHELYI 1971, 1981c, 1982). His collection has already been housed in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The two collections mentioned above were revised by one of the present authors in order to correct some misidentifications and to determine some still unidentified adults (Nógrádi 1989a, 1985). Steinmann’s work - Trichoptera, in the Fauna Hungáriáé series - was an unsuccessful attempt to give an authentic handbook for the scientists (Steinmann 1970). Mostly in the 1960s J. Oláh examined caddisflies of the Zemplén Mts. and the North Borsod Karst. He provided a new method for examining larval communities of mountain creeks (Oláh 1967). Similar examinations were carried out by O. Kiss, whose activity spread over mostly the Bükk and Mátra Mts. It was him to summarize the caddisflies of Bükk Mts. for the first time (KISS 1979), and later he wrote mostly about the caddisflies of mountain creeks in the Bükk Mts. Kiss’ student, D. Schmera also deals with caddisflies of Northern Mountains, mostly the Börzsöny Mts. (Kiss, Schmera 1999). S. Andrikovics dealt mainly with the ecology of caddis and other aquatic insect larvae of stagnant waters, sometimes he elaborated adults as well (Andrikovics, Újhelyi 1983, Andrikovics et al. 2001). Also in Chapter 3, we briefly present the current level of caddisfly studies in each of the European countries, and report on some important faunal papers on the check lists. We also give a taste of examinations done overseas, mostly on its level and on issues of the continents or zoogeographical regions. In Chapter 4 (Material and methods of personal collections) we describe the methods of our twenty years’ activity, and the most important results. We studied the caddisfly fauna of almost all regions of Hungary personally by own field works and by the elaboration of other materials. We collected and captured only adult (imago) caddisflies, but no previous stages. During our 20 collecting seasons we took 2324
