Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 98. (Budapest 2006)

Bálint, Zs. ; Abadjiev, S.: An annotated list of Imre Frivaldszky's publications and the species-group and infraspecies names proposed by him for plants and animals (Regnum Plantare and Animale)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 98 Budapest, 2006 pp. 185-280. An annotated list of Imre Frivaldszky's publications and the species-group and infraspecies names proposed by him for plants and animals (Regnum Plantare and Animale) ZS. BÁLINT

1 & S. ABADJIEV

2 'Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary. E-mail: balint@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu 2

8l Lyuben Karavelov Street, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail: stas@abadjiev.net Abstract - A list of 13 publications of IMRE FRIVALDSZKY containing descriptions or indications to binomens attributing the authorship to himself is presented. This is followed by a list of 296 introduced names of plants ( 104) and animals ( 192). Each entry includes the species-group name, the original combination quoted from the original publication, the type locality, and taxonomic notes. With 12 figures. Key words - Plantare, Animale, Aves, Gastropoda, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, bibliography, nomenclature, taxonomy, Flungary, Slovakia, Romania, Balkans, Asia Minor. INTRODUCTION It is not enough to stress again and again that the natural objects originated from the collections of IMRE FRIVALDSZKY (1799-1870) (Fig. 1) belong to the most important historical items of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, Hungary) (HNHM). They represent or provide clues for evidence to the students, who want to study the period of pioneer floristic and faunistic explorations carried out in the Carpathian Basin, in the Balkans and in the western part of Anatolia (BÁLINT 2002). IMRE FRIVALDSZKY was an aid custodian of "Camera Naturae et Artis Productorum" of the National Museum of Hungary (= Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) with JOHANNES SALAMON PETÉNYI (1799-1855). The botanist JOHANNES SADLER (1791-1849) was the senior custodian. When SADLER died, IMRE FRIVALDSZKY became the appointed custodian in 1849, but only for a short term, because JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY (1822-1895), his relative from the side of his father, became SADLER'S successor, and later the first general director of the Natural History Cabinet. Both FRIVALDSZKYS, who became ordinary members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in the time of I. FRIVALDSZKY still named as "Magyar Tudós