Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

86 Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta (insects) Order Zygentoma (silverfish) JAN STACH (1928) mentioned the occurrence of Lepisma notata by Fertő. Order Ephemeroptera (mayflies) First records from the region were published by SÁNDOR MOCSÁRY (1896a) and SÁNDOR PONGRÁCZ (1914), both of whom noted that the long-tailed mayfly (Palingenia longicauda) was breeding on the Rába and Rábca. PONGRÁCZ also recorded collections of the common mayfly (Ephemera vulgata) and Caenis dimidiata from Kőszeg and Szombathely, while MOCSÁRY also found Ephoron virgo at Szentgotthárd. Occurrences of Palingenia longicauda were recorded at Körmend and Molnaszecsőd by VUTSKITS (1902) and on the Rába (place unspecified) by UNGER (1927) and ÚJHELYI (1959b). SÁNDOR ANDRIKOVICS (19 73) and earlier FRITZ GEYER and HANS MANN (1939) reported occurrences at Fertő of Caenis horaria, Cloeon dipterum, C. simile and a Baetis species. The occurrences of mayflies in Hungary were summarized by SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI (1966), whose article includes Tanakajd and Sopronhorpács data, a Siphlonurus aestivalis specimen caught at Kőszeg in 1940 by ALADÁR VISNYA (but destroyed in 1956), and records of his own collections at Szakonyfalu on August 12-18, 1957. Collecting in the West Hungarian border region was continued in 1994-8 by TIBOR KOVÁCS, ANDRÁS AMBRUS, KÁROLY BÁNKUTI and PÉTER JUHÁSZ, working on mayfly nymphs as well as dragonflies. Their results added 12 new species to the Hungarian mayfly fauna, eight of them were found also in the West Hungarian border region: Baetis niger (Kercaszomor: Kerca; Lenti: Kerka), B. vardarensis (Csákány doroszló: Rába), Pseudocentroptilum pulchrum (Körmend: Rába), Rhitrogena beskidensis (Kőszeg: Hámor, Gyöngyös; Magyarlak: Rába), Electrogena fascioculata (Körmend: Rába; Kőszeg: Hámor, Gyöngyös), Ephemerella mesoleuca (Körmend: Rába; Magyarlak: Rába), E. mucronata (Kőszeg: Kálvária-hegy, Gyöngyös) and Neoephemera maxima (Sárvár: Rába—KOVÁCS et al. 1998). The authors listed further localities in the West Hungarian border region in another communication (KOVÁCS et al. 1999a). They dealt with the four Oligoneuriella species in a separate article (KOVÁCS et al 1999c). Of these, O. keffermuellerae (the Rába at Körmend, Molnaszecsőd, Rábahídvég, Rum and Sárvár), О. pallida (the Rába at Körmend, Molnaszecsőd, Rum, Rábahídvég and Sárvár) and О. rhenana (the Rába at Csörötnek, Magyarlak, Máriaújfalu, and the Gyöngyös at Kőszeg and Lukácsháza) occur in the area examined. For the last two, Western Hungarian occurrences had also been published by SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI (1959b and 1966). Oligoneuriella keffermuellerae proved to be new to the Hungarian fauna. Further collections revealed two further species hitherto unknown in the Hungarian fauna. Baetis tricolor was found on the Rába (at Molnaszecsőd and Rábahídvég) and elsewhere in the country on the Fekete Kőrös, Upper Tisza and Sebes-Kőrös. Brachycercus europaeus was hitherto unknown anywhere in the Carpathian Basin, but nymphs were collected in 1998 at four