S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 59. (Budapest, 1998)

M. morio has beert collected from the North of Europe to North Africa and from the East of North America to Asia. Yet in warmer regions the species is restricted to hilly or even mountainous areas. This is clear from the occurrence of M. morio in Hungary, where it is common in the North and West, while in the Great Plain it appears to be very rare. Astrobunus laevipes (Canestrini, 1872) It has been collected everywhere in Hungary. Being a variable species and most of the species described in the past had been synonymized as it happened to A. meadi Thorell, 1876 and A. dudichi Szalay, 1951, which were mentioned by Szalay in his key to the Hungarian harvestmen. The species with its characteristic tergital spines often manages to escape our attention. In the pitfall traps 5 males, two females and eight juveniles were caught. It does not seem to be a rare element of the ground layer of forests in the Börzsöny Mountains. DISCUSSION The harvestmen fauna of the Börzsöny Mountains is far richer than the list of the eight above-mentioned species. Because of the used collecting method we miss those species which are mainly found on rocks or on tree trunks. I have no doubt that we may collect there a such common species such as Phalangium opilio Linné, 1761 and the rarer Nelima semproni Szalay, 1951. Nevertheless, this little study proves that we may learn a great deal about a regional fauna by studying rest material from soil traps. Unfortunately, many specimens without legs and/or pedipalps were thrown away, before analysis was possible. Therefore, it is impossible to draw conclusions about the relative abundance of the species except those mentioned above. Possibly a future series of traps will make that possible. I ask scientists and amateur entomologists not to throw away 'uninteresting' arachnological remains from their soil traps and beg to give this potentially interesting material to the Hungarian Natural History Museum of Budapest. Since specialists are able to decide which material is worth to study in more detail. Acknowledgements - First of all I wish thank Dr. L. Papp for offering the harvestmen caught in his traps. I also appreciated the help from Dr. J. Martens for checking the juvenile specimen of Mitostoma chrysomelas. LITERATURE Gruber, J. & Martens J. (1968): Morphologie, Systematik und Ökologie der Gattung Nemastoma C.L. Koch (s. str.) (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae). In Senckenbergiana biol. 49: 137-172. Kolosváry, G. (1929): The Opiliones of Hungary. - Studium Kiadó, Budapest, 111 pp.