Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
154 Phylum Arthropoda ruralis (DARVAS et al 2001). Species from the Őrség: Tephritis vespertina, T. amicae (MERZ 2000b); Meoneura exigua (PAPP 2001b); Cephalops semifumosus, Eudorylas longifrons (FÖLDVÁRI and KOZÁNEK 2001). Species from other parts of the West Hungarian border region: Tephritis vespertina (MERZ 2000b); Chionea belgica, (STARY 2001); Trichocera rufulenta (KRZEMINSKA 2001); Pegoplata infirma (DARVAS et al 2001). Faunistic data on the Diptera in the region, resulting from the same series of examinations, can also be found in MERZ (2000a), KRZEMINSKA (2001), MAJER (2001b), and CHVÁLA and FÖLDVÁRI (2001). A species new to science, Dynatosoma nigripes, was described from a specimen from the Zemplén Hills. The paratype for this comes from the Kőszeg Hills (Velem: above Szerdahely Brook, July 24, 2000, leg. PAPP —SEVCÍK and PAPP 2001). Material from eight Diptera families (Culicidae, Tabanidae, Xylomyidae, Stratiomyidae, Bombyliidae, Syrphidae, Conopidae and Tachinidae) collected in the Fertő-Hanság National Park was processed by SÁNDOR TÓTH (2002). The 19,000 specimens collected 19982000 yielded 503 species. The Culicidae fauna of the park proved to be less rich. Of the 46 species found hitherto in Hungary, 26 were collected there. The Tabanidae are represented in Hungary by 60 species, of which 35 were collected in the park area. The Stratiomyidae are represented in Hungary by 55 species, of which 34 were collected. Of these, three species (Allognosta vagans, Oxycera rara and Zabrachia minutissima) are rare nationally. The Bombyliidae fauna of the territory also proved to be poor. Of the 70 species found in Hungary, only 23 were collected in the Fertő-Hanság National Park. Of the much richer Syrphidae family, 3 65 species are known in the country, of which 215 species were collected in the park. The following rare species deserve mentioning: Cheilosia hrachysoma, Mallota cimbiciformis, Orthonevra incisa, Sphaerophoria loewi and Temnostoma méridionale. The Conopidae fauna of the park proved also to be poor. Of the 40 species found in Hungary, only 14 were collected. Of the much bigger Tachinidae family, 433 species are known in the country, of which only 155 species were collected in the Fertő-Hanság National Park. Order Siphonaptera (fleas) Research into parasitology, begun at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 1958, started by establishing the distribution of flea species in Hungary. Only one species had been confirmed earlier in the West Hungarian border region: the bat flea Ceratopsylla jubata (present valid name: Ischnopsyllus octactenus), collected by KÁROLY MIKA in Sopron in 1899 (KOHAUT 1903). Its collection data was identified by ISTVÁN SZABÓ (1972a). REZSŐ KOHAUT recalled how the species was collected: 'I can thank Lajos Méhely for his interesting species, which he collected off a common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in Sopron in 1899.' Six years later, GYÖRGY TOPÁL found three fleas on two common pipistrelles while examining the bats in the collection at the Hungarian Natural History Museum, and these also were specimens of I. octactenus. The collection record for the bats read Sopron: Tómalom, November 21, 1899, KÁROLY
