Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
126 Phylum Arthropoda Forestry and the Timber Industry (now the University of Western Hungary). When the university's predecessor had to move from Selmecbánya (Banská Stiavnica) in 1919, ARTHUR KELLE managed to bring almost all the collections and equipment of the Forestry Faculty to Sopron unscathed. Then, until his death in 1945, he expanded the visual materials to such an extent that they had become the most valuable and complete zoological, especially entomological collection in the country, apart from that of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. 45 This was developed further by JÁNOS GYŐRFI. The insect material he collected remains with the Forestry Protection Faculty at the university and is accessible to all researchers who would like to deal with the insect fauna of the West Hungarian border region. GYŐRFI'S entomological work greatly increased our faunistic knowledge of the region (GYŐRFI 1939, 1940a, 1940b, 1941a, 1941b, 1941d, 1942b, 1942c, 1943-8,1944a, 1944b, 1944c, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1962). LAJOS VARGA (1937a) described an enormous nest built at Sopron by German wasps (Vespa germanica). The insect mines known in Hungary were studied by PÁL SURÁNYI (1942). He described the types of mine made by numerous Hymenoptera (and other insects) from Western Hungary. The life cycle of the pine sawfly (Diprion pirn), a pest of Scotch fir (Pinus sylvestris), along with the cases of damage in the West Hungarian border 45 BOGNÁR, S. 1994. A magyar növényvédelem (History of Hungarian Plant Protection from earlif Mosonmagyaróvár. region were reported in doctoral dissertation (KOLONITS 1969). The wood-wasp species Urocerus phantoma, discovered near Sopron, was new to the Hungarian fauna (AMBRUS 1979c). JÁNOS BARNA SZABÓ (1981) put forward a proposal for resolving the entomological hygiene problems that arise when collecting wasp species, during fieldwork in the West Hungarian border region. He also presented ecological, ethological and systematic findings on Hungary's scelionid wasps (Scelionidae), including Western Hungarian data (SZABÓ 1966). Other data on Hymenoptera appear in a publication on Fertő: DELY-DRASKOVITS et al (1994). ATTILA HARIS (2001) has issued a revised species list for Hungary of the Nematinae subfamily of sawflies. This includes occurrence locations in Western Hungary, including specimens collected in 1936-8 in the Kőszeg Hills and later data from the Őrség. Four cocoons of a rare wood-lice parasitoid, Protaphidius wissmannii, collected at Molnaszecsőd, demonstrated that it occurs in the West Hungarian border region (KOVÁCS and KOVÁCS 2000). JENŐ PAPP revised the specimens of braconid wasps (Braconidae) collected in the Kőszeg Hills in 1936-8 and identified by JÁNOS GYŐRFI. PAPP (1988), in his account of braconid fauna of the West Hungarian border region, found that many earlier identifications were erroneous, so that the present-day pictörténete a legrégibb időktől napjainkig (1030-1980) st Times to the Present Day, 1030-1980), 783 pp.
