Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Somogy Fauna Katalógusa - A XX. század végén Somogy megyéből ismertté vált állatfajok listája - Natura Somogyiensis 1. (Kaposvár, 2001)
Szinetár Csaba: Somogy megye pókfaunája (Aranea) - Spider fauna of Somogy county.(Aranea)
70 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS Spider fauna of Somogy county (Aranea) CSABA SZINETÁR The first data regarding the spider fauna of Somogy county can be found in the work of CHYZER and KULCZYNSKI (1891, 1894, 1897). Owing to the contribution of several enthusiastic collectors (Lajos Bíró, József Jablonovszky, Géza Horváth, Adolf Lendl, János Pável) we have data from the southern side of Lake Balaton (Balatonföldvár, Balatonszentgyörgy, Boglár, Fonyód, Lelle, Szántód) as well as from Szulok and Zákány. The fauna checklist includes the above data together with the settlement's name as well as the publication date of Araneae Hungáriáé II (1897). Regarding the former investigations, the publications of Gábor Kolosváry regarding the Hungarian juniper fauna have to be mentioned. The author referred several times to the Juniper area at Darány, where the spiders living on junipers together with other animal species have also been studied (KOLOSVÁRY 1935). In the fauna researches exploring the Barcsi Borókás Landscape Protection Area, Imre Loksa had a significant role, collecting - among other animal species - the spiders as well. The publication of his material collected by him and partly worked up appeared in the 2nd Volume of the Danube-Dráva National Park Research (SZINETÁR 1998). The author of this publication joined the exploration of the county's spider fauna on the invitation of the Somogy County Museum in the early nineties. The exploration performed in early nineties of the Boronka-melléki Landscape Protection A'ea revealed the typical habitats in the central areas of the county. The well-conserved acidic sandy grasses and alder marsh-woods were especially valuable (SZINETÁR 1992). Among the most significant habitats of the Boronka Landscape-Protection Area, Böhönye (Mernyei-Woods), Nagybajom (Farakodó), Gyótapuszta (Gyótai-Woods), and Hosszúvíz have to be mentioned. In the second half of the nineties researches were carried out within the frames of the Danube-Dráva National Park Research on areas of the National Park belonging to Somogy county, such as: Zákány-Ortilos Hills, Barcsi Borókás Landscape-Protection A*ea as well as in the areas of Bélavár, Bolhó, Babócsa, Pótony and Tótújfalu (SziNETÁR 1998). Farkas et al. examined the spiders (among other animals) during 1993-94 in Cinege Creek valley (Töreki, south of Siófok) (FARKAS et al. 1998). As a result of these investigations, 334 spider species were identified on the area of Somogy county This means 46% of the Hungarian spider fauna (SAMU and SZINETÁR 1999). A significant part of the county can be still deemed as unexplored. In the followings, the Zselic and the Somogy part of Lake Balaton shoreline could be especially interesting. Hopefully, the present publication will help to draw the attention to the natural values of Somogy county and to encourage the future researches. Dr. Csaba SZINETÁR Department of Zoology Berzsenyi College H-9701 Szombathely Károlyi Gáspár tér 4. HUNGARY E-mail : szcsaba@fs2. bdtf.hu
