L. Forró szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 8. 1993 (Budapest, 1993)

Merkl, O.: Zoological collectings by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Africa: a report on the Elgon Expedition, 1992

No. 513. Mt. Elgon National Park, near Chepnyalil Cave, 2500 m, 24-28 January 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Shaded, moist parts of the evergreen montane forest. Singled from beneath rotten logs. Diplopoda, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. No. 514. Mt. Elgon National Park, near Chepnyalil Cave, 2500 m, 24-28 January 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Beetles collected from the stream above the cave. - Coleoptera. No. 515. Mt. Elgon National Park, Chepnyalil Cave, 2500 m, 28 January 1992, leg. E. Spielmann. Baited pitfall traps placed in bat guano in the cave. - Acari. No. 516. Mt. Elgon National Park, Chepnyalil Cave, 2500 m, 28 January 1992, leg. E. Spielmann. Bugs collected from the surface of water in the cave. - Heteroptera. No. 517. Mt. Elgon National Park, Chorlim Gate, 2140 m, 29 January 1992, leg. G. Várkonyi. - Degraded forest edge. Swept from the vegetation. - Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. No. 518. Kakamega, Lirhanda Hill, 1800 m, 30 January 1992, leg. A. Lobmayer, O. Merkl, G. Várkonyi. - Protea-Combretum woodland. Swept from the vegetation. - Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera. No. 519. Kakamega Forest Reserve, 1650 m, 30 January 1992, leg. O. Merkl, G. Várkonyi. - Submontane rainforest. Singled and swept from the vegetation. - Isopoda, Orthoptera, Psocoptera, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. No. 520. Kakamega Forest Reserve, 1650 m, 30 January 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Submontane rainforest. Singled from beneath rotten logs. - Coleoptera. No 521. Kakamega Forest Reserve, 1650 m, 30 January 1992, leg. A. Lobmayer, O. Merkl, G. Várkonyi. - Night collecting from white sheet illuminated by MV light. - Orthoptera, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera. No. 522. Nakuru, 1852 m, 31 January 1992, leg. G. Várkonyi. - Accidental catching on the road. Hymenoptera. No. 523. Nyahururu, 2360 m, 31 January 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Singled from beneath logs in the town. - Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diplopoda. No. 524. Mdaraywa, E of Nyahururu, 2400 m, 1 February 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Degraded bush near Juniperus forest. Singled from beneath stones. - Coleoptera. No. 525. 10 km W of Naro Moni, 2000 m, 1 February 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Secondary grassland. Singled from beneath dead Aloe. - Diplopoda, Coleoptera. No. 526. Mt. Kenya National Park, Meteorological Station, 3040 m, 2 February 1992, leg. O. Merkl. Subalpine moist mossy forest (mainly Hagenia abyssinica). Singled from beneath rotten logs and stones. - Lumbricoidea, Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Isopoda, Araneae, Dermaptera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera. No. 527. Mt. Kenya National Park, Meteorological Station, 3040 m, 2 February 1992, leg. O. Merkl. Bamboo (Arundinaria alpina) thicket, clearings and roadside. Swept from the vegetation. Psocoptera, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera. No. 528. Mt. Kenya National Park, Meteorological Station, 3040 m, 2 February 1992, leg. A. Lobmayer, O. Merkl. - Bamboo (Arundinaria alpina) thicket. Night collecting from white sheet illuminated by MV light. - Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera. No. 529. 5 km E of Naro Mom, 2140 m, 3 February 1992, leg. O. Merkl. - Degraded, hevily grazed area. Singled from beneath stones and cow-pats. Epilachna ladybirds were collected from the non-indigenous "Sodom apple" (Solanum incanum). - Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Orthoptera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera. No. 530. Nairobi, 3 February 1992, leg O. Merkl, G. Várkonyi. - Accidental catching in the city. Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. References Auriviliius, Chr. (1926): Sammlungen der Schwedischen Elgon-Expedition im Jahre 1920. 8. Curculionidae. -Ark. f. Zool. 18A (23): 1-34. Hamilton, A. C. & Perrott, R. A. (1981): A study of altitudinal zonation in the montane forest belt of Mt. Elgon, Kenya/Uganda. - Vegetatio 45:107-125. Hedberg, O. (1951): Vegetation belts of the East African mountains. - Svensk Bot Tidskr. 45(1): 140208. Lucas, G. L. (1968): Kenya. - In: Hedberg, I. & Hedberg, O. (eds): Conservation of Vegetation of Africa South of the Sahara. -Acta Phytogeogr. Suec. 54:152-163. Pócs, T. & Szabó, A. (1993): The epiphytic vegetation on the endemic giant groundsel (Senecio barbatipes Hedberg) of Mt. Elgon, Kenya. - Opera bot. [in print.]