Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 50. (Budapest 1958)
Boros, I.: Kálmán Kittenberger and the Hungarian National Museum - Museum of Natural History
ponderantly insects, first of all beetles in 26 000 specimens, most of them in the late German East Africa, less so in Uganda. A part of it were already worked out by specialists ; the Chrysomelidae are being studied in these days, the Curcolionids are still untouched. Of the material worked out, about 60 species new to science were found, and numerous species bear the name of their collector (Katona — Kittenberger), as Carabomorphus Katonae Csiki, Tefflus Katonae Csiki, Perigona Katonae Csiki, Pachnoda Katonae Csiki, Stilicus Katonae Bernhauer, Medon Katonae Bernhauer, Philonthus Katonae Bernhauer, Endustomus Kittenbergeri Kaszab, Zonitis Kittenbergeri Kaszab, Psalydolytta Kittenbergeri Kaszab, Eletica colorata pallidipennis Fairm. ab. Kittenbergeri Kaszab, Cory na Katonensis Pic, Aspidomorpha biguttata F. var. Katonae Spaeth. He also collected a considerable number of bugs and homoptera, about 12—13 000 specimens, in the territories he visited. A large portion of them, however, is still unworked-out, about 7000 bugs and 1500 homoptera. Some 2000 specimens of them are now abroad, studied by specialists. From among these, new species, about 45, were also described, and the names of two bugs : Saldula Katonae Drake, and Compseuta Kittenbergeri Drake, then a homopteran : Hyster opter um Katonae Melichar reminds us of their collector. He enriched further also our Hymenoptera collection with a valuable African material of about 6000 specimens. Aside of ants, mainly the families Braconidae, Proctotrupidae Chrysididae, Sphegidae and Apidae are richly represented in his collectings, and several home and foreign authors (S z é p 1 igethy, Mocsár y, Handlirsch, André, Bischoff, Forel) described, as could be established up to now, about 80 new species originating from them. The name of their collector is immortalized by the following forms : Cephalotilla Katonai Bischoff, Odontotilla bidentata André ssp. Katonai Bischoff, Mutilla (?) Katonai André, Chrysis Katonae Mocsáry, Pheidole sculpturata Mayr var. Katonae Forel, Anochetus Grandidieri Fiori var. Katonae For. He also considerably contributed to the Dipterological Collection of the Museum. He dispatched some 7000 valuable East African flies to us, of which, however, only about 2500 acalyptrate flies were saved from the conflagration of the Museum, to which also the fly collection fell victim, on the 5th November 1956. Of these, about 2000 specimens are determined, 500 still awaiting working out. Foreign specialists, as Hering, Bezzi, Munro, Becker, Hendel, Duda, have described 4 new genera and 35 new species up to now. Of the new genera, one : Katonaia Munro ; of the species, three : Dacus Katonai Bezzi, Brachioptera Katonai Munro, and Tephrella Katonai Bezzi, were named in his honor. The descriptions of the species were published in our Annals, further in those of the Vienna Miiseum and the Museum of Pretoria. It is a striking fact that, in spite of the very rich East African Orthoptera fauna, we find but 445 specimens inventoried, as a Kittenberger material, in our books. But, since this collection was also destroyed, we could establish only the one item that D. K u t h y described a new species by the name Phlaeoba Horváthi of them, in the 1911 volume of our Annals. I mention it as but a numerical datum that he collected some 150 Neuropterans, but I could not establish any further data in this regard. The Lepidopterans collected by him, and in a much smaller amount than the former groups, consist mainly of colorful and large butterflies. He sent us some 600 specimens, collected chiefly around the Kilimanjaro and in Uganda,
