Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
Phylum Arthropoda 121 horn species (HEGYESSY 1992). He also identified the sizeable longhorn collection at the Dániel Berzsenyi College in Szombathely, which had bought as part of the insect collection of ANTAL PÉNZES. This contains 100 species and subspecies from the present territory of Hungary (HEGYESSY 2000). The longhorns (Cerambycidae) collected in the Őrség were identified by GÁBOR HEGYESSY and TIBOR KOVÁCS (1996). There had not been a general account of the longhorn beetles of the Őrség and adjacent areas, the first to publish data being SÁNDOR HORVATOVICH (1980 and 1981a). An article by TIBOR KOVÁCS and GÁBOR HEGYESSY (1992) introduced Pronocera angusta as a species new to the Hungarian fauna and listed the other species found in the same habitat. In another article, TIBOR KOVÁCS (1994) gave data on the longhorns in the PODLUSSÁNY collection, at the Mátra Museum in Gyöngyös, which includes specimens from the Őrség and elsewhere in Vas County. HEGYESSY and KOVÁCS (1996) showed that 94 longhorn species occur in the Őrség, with a typically high number of 63 damp-loving species, especially ones connected with conifers (25 species), due to the proximity of the Alps, high annual precipitation, a relatively cool climate, and the effects of these on the vegetation. However, species from further south also occur, some of them nationally rare, such as Stenopterus flavicomis and Deilus fugax. TIBOR KOVÁCS, JÓZSEF MUSKOVITS and GÁBOR HEGYESSY include several occurrence records from the West Hungarian border region in their articles on the food plants of the country's longhorn beetles (KOVÁCS 1997; KOVÁCS and HEGYESSY 1997; KOVÁCS et al. 2000c). A second article, by GÁBOR HEGYESSY, TIBOR KOVÁCS, FERENC NAGY and FERENC PALOTÁS, presented records for 182 species of longhorn in the West Hungarian border region, along with a critical revision of the literature. It gathers all the known longhorn data from the region, partly from the literature and partly from new collections (HEGYESSY et al. 1999). Since then, the longhorn fauna of Western Hungary has increased by one species, Xylotrechus pantherinus (KOVÁCS et al. 2000c). FERENC NAGY (2002) gave collection data for 74 longhorn species in the villages of Nárai, Pornóapáti, Horvátlövő, Vaskeresztes, Felsőcsatár and Narda, including several rarities: Anoplodera rufipes, Brachyleptura fúlva, Leptura aethiops, Stenopterus flavicomis and Saperda scalaris. Experiences with a rare longhorn collected in Sopron are reported in MEDVEGY et a/. (1988). A list of 115 cerambycid species collected in the Fertő-Hanság National Park was presented by HEGYESSY et al. (2002). The best-studied part of the neighbourhood is the town of Mosonmagyaróvár, the home of three major figures in Hungarian coleopterology — ANDOR RUFF, DEZSŐ RÉVY and TIBOR KOVÁCS. A total of 84 cerambycid species were recorded by ÉVA KOVÁCS MURAI (1958) and TIBOR KOVÁCS (1995). However, Mosonmagyaróvár is not part of the Fertő-Hanság National Park and beyond the area covered in this book. ISTVÁN ROZNER and KÁROLY VÍG have been dealing with leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae). The first summary of the territory revealed 247 species (ROZNER 1987). These included several species previously known at one or two localities in the country and now collected in
