Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
152 Phylum Arthropode! flies (Tabanidae). His purpose, apart from collecting faunistic data, was to try out methods of mass collection in intensive stockbreeding farms and cattle fields, for quantitative and qualitative examination of deer and horse-flies, and adapt them for Hungary. After assessing various trapping methods he had tried in a meadow between Csánig and Dénesfa (coloured and uncoloured Malaise traps, traps treated with carbon dioxide), he devised a combined colour trap that ope-rated at Magyarszombatfa. The experiments were extended to estimating the horse-fly fauna of an area based on repeated captures (MAJER 1981). In the following years, various traps operated at various locations in the West Hungarian border region, so that Tabanidae data was gathered in the vicinity of 29 places. So far, 37 of the 51 horse-fly species known in Hungary have been found in the West Hungarian border region. The dominant species are the cleg (Haematopota pluvialis) and the small horse-fly (Tabanus bromius). Interestingly, along with the mainly European fauna elements, three subMediterranean and Mediterranean species (Г. exclusus, T. paradoxus and Г. tergestinus) have also been caught. The West Hungarian border region and similar latitudes in Austria mark the northern extent of their distribution (MAJER 1987 and 1989). JÓZSEF MAJER, while revising the Tabanidae of Hungary, totalled the collection data for the species, including the occurrences in Western Hungary, and plotted them on EIS UTM-system international standard grid maps (MAJER 2001a and 2002). 69 KRCMAR, S., and T. BOGDANOVIC 2001. List hungarica 62:257-62. A checklist of Tabadinae species has also been published in neighbouring Slovenia. 69 The Tachinidae collected in the West Hungarian border region were processed by SÁNDOR TÓTH. Although he had later plans to write a monograph on these, he published his faunistic results in advance (TÓTH 1992). These showed 191 Tachinidae species, a number that may rise substantially as researches continue. Faunistic examination of the Diptera also began in the Őrség in 1976, under the Natural History of Praenoricum research programme. Previously, the first sporadic collection was probably done by SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI, who caught some Syrphidae while researching Odonata and Neuropteroidea in the vicinity of Szakonyfalu in August 1957. The hover-fly specimens can still be found in the Diptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Under the Natural History of the Őrség research programme, flies were collected primarily by SÁNDOR TÓTH, who also undertook partial processing of the Diptera taxon. About 400 species were identified in the following families: crane-flies (Tipulidae), shortpalped crane-flies (Limoniidae), mosquitoes and gnats (Culicidae), soldierflies (Stratiomyidae), deer and horseflies (Tabanidae), bee-flies (Bombyliidae), stiletto flies (Therevidae), window-flies (Scenopinidae), thick-headed flies (Conopidae) and tachinid flies (Tachinidae). The processed material contained five species new to the Hungarian fauna: Hybomitra tarandina (TaTabanidae (Diptera) in Slovenia. Folia entomologica
