Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 82. (Budapest 1990)

Tóth, L.: Provisional check-list of Hungarian stoneflies (Plecoptera)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 82. Budapest, 1990 p. 75-89. Provisional check-list of Hungarian stoneflies (Plecoptera) by L. TÓTH, Budapest L. TÓTH: Provisional check-list of the Hungarian stoneflies (Plecoptera). Annls hist.-nat. Mus, natn. hung. 1990, 82: 75-89. Abstract - List of 7 families, 21 genera, 59 species of Plecoptera from the present-day Hungary is given, completed with 5 genera and 72 species from other part of the Carpathian Basin, which potentially or expectedly also occur in Hungary. Their synonymy is also given. The exploration of the Hungarian Plecoptera fauna began in the second half of the last century. The list of the entomologists who have studied these insects in Hungary is brief. The present stonefly material is not adequate enough for a catalogue or a comprehensive zoogeographical and faunistical assessment. However, I tiiink it is necessary to give a provisional checklist of the Hungarian Plecoptera, which is reasoned by the following: comprehensive studies concerning the classification, taxonomy and synonymy of these insects are lacking, the territorial basis of the earlier investigations was not restricted to the present-day Hungary, but the veritable zoogeographical area, the Carpathian Basin, so the existing "Hungarian" data by all means do not coincide with each other . For the first time in the history of the Hungarian Natural History Museum has been established an independent collection of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. The new, intensive faunistical surveys with special regard to the pollution of our natural waters require the summary of all earlier results. The first faunistical list of the Hungarian Plecoptera was published by MOCSÁR Y (1899). At the turn of the century KLAPÁLEK (1899, 1902 ) reported some data on the Hungarian stoneflies. Before World War I P0NGRÁCZ (1913, 1914) published some comprehensive studies on the Plecoptera of the Carpathian Basin, i.e. historical Hungary. Between the two World Wars DUDICH (1943), FEKETE (1925), P0NGRÁCZ (1936), SÁTORI (1938, 1939a, 1939b, 1940) reported some valuable data of stoneflies. After World WAR II. AUBERT (1966), TÓTH (1989), ÚJHELYI (1957, 1979, 1983) published detailed studies. STEINMANN (1968) and ÚJHELYI (1969) published comprehensive papers dealing with these insects

. In the last forty years national catalogues (partly combined with identifical keys) of the neighbouring countries were published: by WINKLER (1957) for Czechoslovakia, by POMEISL (1958) for Austria, by KIS (1974) for Roumania and by SIVEC (1980) for Yugoslavia. The survey of these studies extended to the Carpathian Basin, including nearby areas of the present-day Hungary. These catalogues also figure species which are expected to turn up in the Hungarian fauna, therefore the present-day Hungary is not an independent zoogeographical territory, but an inseparable part of the Carpathian Basin, which is a veritable zoogeographical area in Central Europe. Naturally, the recent Hungarian stonefly fauna is in close connection with the fauna of the Carpathian Basin, surely the watersystem are common and the Hungarian Central Ranges as watershed, never means a considerable natural barrier on the way of migration, immigration and distribution of the Plecoptera. It is another