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

Phylum Arthropoda 77 Work on the class was advanced considerably by IMRE LOKSA (1958 and 1968), who found new varieties in the territory examined. Based on the most recent study (KORSÓS 1994), the millipedes Glomeridella minima and Haploglomeris multistrata are worth mentioning, as the Kőszeg Hills are their only location in Hungary (see also: JERMY 1942). A male specimen of Haasea hungarica, described from Abaliget Cave in Baranya County as Orobainosoma hungaricum,

1 was collected by ALADÁR VISNYA in the Kőszeg Hills (from a locality not precisely known, see SZALAY 1942a and 1943). Unfortunately, the present whereabouts of the authenticating specimen is not known either. There is a similar problem with Craspedosoma transsilvanicum. It is known from Abaliget Cave

2 and several specimens have been found near Kőszeg, in the Alsó-erdő (Lower Wood). LÁSZLÓ SZALAY (1942a and 1943) classified these as Craspedosoma transsilvanicum austriacum, and they are probably to be found in the collections of the Ecology and Zoosystematics Department of the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. The subspecies Megaphyllum bosniense cotinophilum was described from the Keszthely Hills in Zala County by IMRE LOKSA, who later collected specimens from Vas County as well (LOKSA 1968). Several examples of Pachypodoiulus eurypus were also found in the West Hungarian border region and these are the only known occurrences of the species in Hungary. Finally, it is worth mentioning an aberration, Polydesmus edentulus bidentatus f. hungarica found at Szakonyfalu and described by LOKSA (1958). LOKSA (1961) mentions occurrences of the type on Kovácsi Hill (Zala County) and in Western Hungary. Other details appear in ZOLTÁN KORSÓS (1994). Collections made in the Turkey oakthorn association to the north of the Tömörd Bird Observatory and in the dry hill meadow between the thorn wood and the marsh were processed and published by KORSÓS and to some extent LÁSZLÓ DÁNYI (SZÉL and KORSÓS 2000, 2001; KORSÓS and DÁNYI 2002b). It is worth mentioning the occurrence of the rare species Polyzonium germanicum. After the latest collections, 16 species of millipede are known from the Fertő-Hanság National Park, all of them common and widespread in Hungary (KORSÓS and DÁNYI 2002a). 1 VERHOEFF, K.W. 1928. Zur Kenntnis der Diplopodenfauna Ungarns. [109. Diplopoden-Aufsatz]. Állattani Közlemények 25:124-5 and 182-99. 2 GEBHARDT, А. 1934. Az abaligeti barlang élővilága (Life in Abaliget Cave). Mathematikai és Természettudományi Értesítő 37:132-8.