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

120 Phylum Arthropoda Pinka, Lajta and Zala rivers, as well as in the Lapines (Lafnitz) near Königsdorf. Much the same can be said of Potamophilus acuminatus (Elmidae), which has been rediscovered in the Lapines and at several localities on the Rába. Interestingly, the two species have occurred together in the Rába and in other Hungarian watercourses, in some cases on the same piece of wood. A later publication (KOVÁCS and AMBRUS 2001a) includes the collection data for 1997-2000. OTTO MERKL (2002) lists 510 beetle species belonging to 54 families (Haliplidea, Noteridae, Hygrobiidae, Dytiscidae, Histeridae, Leiodidae, Silphidae, Scaphidiidae, Lucanidae, Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae, Eucinetidae, Scirtidae, Dascillidae, Buprestidae, Byrrhidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, Anobiidae, Sphindidae, Brachypteridae, Nitidulidae, Monotomidae, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae, Phalacridae, Cryptophagidae, Erotylidae, Byturidae, Biphyllidae, Cerylonidae, Endomychidae, Coccinellidae, Corylophidae, Latridiidae, Mycetophagidae, Ciidae, Melandryidae, Zopheridae, Tenebrionidae, Oedemeridae, Meloidae, Pyrochoridae, Salpingidae, Anthicidae, Aderidae and Bruchidae) found in and near the Fertő-Hanság National Park. The identification was made by several specialists. Three extremely rare species (Mychothenus minutus, Eledonoprius armatus and Tenebrio opacus) were also found. Further localities of beetle species rare in Hungary were given by TIBOR KOVÁCS and GÁBOR HEGYESSY (1993). They include ones for Denops albofasciatus (Cák, row of cellars, January 28, 1992) and Liparthrum bartschi (Nagycenk, row of limes, November 12, 1993). JÓZSEF SÁR has collected beetle fauna since 1981, from under tree bark in South and Western Transdanubia. From the West Hungarian border region, he has given data from Kondorfa, Szakonyfalu and Szőce (SÁR 1993). His record of Uloma rufa (Tenebrionidae) from Szakonyfalu is an extremely valuable piece of faunistic data (July 24, 1988). In a later article, DEZSŐ SZALÓKI (1999) covered the species in 123 genera of the Elateroidea, Cleroidea and Lymexyloidea families and part of the Tenebrionoidea family, giving distribution data and the full literature on 248 species from the West Hungarian border region. He also identified the Malacodermata and some of the Heteromera material in the beetle collection of the Mátra Museum in Gyöngyös. Many Western Hungarian specimens entered the collection from the work in the West Hungarian border region done by ATTILA PODLUSSÁNY (SZALÓKI 1997). SÁNDOR HORVATOVICH, giving the faunistic data for the malacodermatous beetles of the Carpathian Basin, included data for the West Hungarian border region. He erased from the Hungarian fauna Julistus memnonius, found at Tárcsa (Bad Tatzmannsdorf), outside present-day Vas County, but not collected inside the country's present frontiers (HORVATOVICH 1969). An occurrence record in the Sopron Hills for the rare lycid beetle Pyropterus affinis was given by GYÖRGY TRASER (1993). The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) collected in the West Hungarian border region and held at the Savaria Museum were processed by GÁBOR HEGYESSY. Having identified the specimens, he found they included 112 long-