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

76 12 PHYLUM ARTHROPODA (ARTHROPODS) SUBPHYLUM MYRIAPODA (MYRIAPODS) The earliest data from the region on the group previously known as Myriapoda came from ROBERT LATZEL (1884) and JENŐ DADAY (1889 and 1896a). Later systematic works made clear that the Myriapoda consist of several disparate taxa organized in quite different ways. Class Chilopoda (centipedes) LÁSZLÓ SZALAY processed material collected in 1936-7 according to more recent taxonomic knowledge and published three studies. He demonstrated the occurrence of 22 'species and varieties' of Chilopoda in the Kőszeg Hills (SZALAY 1940). IMRE LOKSA (1947) mentioned two species of centipede from the same district (Monotarsobius aeruginosus and M. austriacus). In a later study (LOKSA 1948), he described a new subspecies from Tómalom in Sopron (Lithobius nodulipes scarabanciae). The same study included among several faunistic records of the Kőszeg Hills descriptions of two new subspecies (L. nigrifrons sulcatipes and L. agilis pannonicus) and a species new to science (L. luteus) Centipedes collected by pitfall trapping in the Turkey oak-thorn association to the north of the Tömörd Bird Observatory and in the dry hill meadow between the thorn wood and the marsh were later identified by ZOLTÁN KORSÓS and in some cases LÁSZLÓ DÁNYI (SZÉL and KORSÓS 2000 and 2001; KORSÓS and DÁNYI 2002b). One locally rare species found was Lithobius melanops. The centipede fauna of the FertőHanság National Park was processed KORSÓS and DÁNYI (2002a). They showed the occurrence of 14 species in the park, none of them notable apart from Cryptops párisi, which is an important constituent of the centipede fauna of the Hanság. Class Diplopod The only record for the Diplopoda to be found in earlier literature was an occurrence of Leptoiulus saltuvagus in the Kőszeg Hills (SCHUBART 1934). The collections made in the Kőszeg Hills in 1936-7 yielded 28 'species and varieties' (SZALAY 1942a and 1943). A contribution to knowledge of millipedes in the region was also made a (millipedes) by TIBOR JERMY (1942), by identifying some of the species. Other occurrence records for the Fertő district are found in later faunistic works by SZALAY (1942b), who returned to the subject of millipede occurrence in Western Hungary in connection with a Bakony (Zirc) collection of Leptoiulus saltuvagus (SZALAY 1944).