Ladislav Roller - Attila Haris - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research - Natura Somogyiensis 11. (Kaposvár, 2008)

History of the Symphyta research in the Carpathian Basin

Fig. 7: Lajos Bíró 1862, 1863 and 1865), namely: Abia aurulenta Sichel, 1856 from Transylvania, Arge enodis (Linnaeus, 1767) (as Hylotoma vulgaris Klug, 1834) from Hungary (after SCHRANK 1781), Arge frivaldszkyi (Tischbein, 1852) (as Hylotoma frivaldszkyi Tischbein, 1852) and Acantholyda serbica Vasic, 1962 (as Lyda populi (Linnaeus, 1758)) from Bánát. In his monograph, Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844 Beaune 1891 Beaune), enumerated 122 Symphyta species from Hungary (André, 1879), completed with the description of two new species, namely: Tarpa mocsaryi Ed. Andre, 1881 = Megalodontes mocsaryi (Ed. Andre^ 1881) and Dolerus lucens Ed. Andre, 1880 = Dolerus sanguinicolfo(Klug, 1818). Until 1881, 122 was the total number of species recorded in the Carpathian Basin. In the next 16 years, until 1897 (the closing date of the manuscript of the Hymenoptera part of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé, MOCSÁRY 1900), the number of the recorded Symphyta species increased to 438. Lajos Bíró (1856 Tasnád - 1931 Budapest, ethnographer, ornithologist and entomologist, New Guinea researcher, Fig. 7.) described Dolerus quadrinotatus Bíró, 1884 from Szőllőske (now Vinicky, Slovakia) and later he reported 15 more sawfly species from the Eastern Carpathian Mountains. Artúr Petrogalli (1850 Fehérkő, now Podbrezová-Vajsková in Slovakia - 1894 Trencsén (Trencin), grammar school teacher) reported several sawfly species from Szitnya (now Sitno Mt. in Slovakia) (PETROGALLI 1890). The article of Jenő Petricskó (1851 Cséres, now Circ in Slovakia - 1921, grammar school teacher at Besztercebánya, now Banská Bystrica) published by the Selmecbányái Gyógyászati és Természettudományi Egyesület (Selmecbánya Society of Medical and Nature Sicences) in 1892 titled "Selmecbánya és vidéke állattani tekintetben" (Fauna of Selmecbánya and its environment) (PETRICSKÓ 1892). In this paper he enumerated 31 species as listed in the detailed faunistic list below. Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842 Mechow - 1908 Teschendorf, Fig. 8) described 27 new species from Croatia and Hungary between 1887 and 1907 (KONOW 1887a, b, 1890a, b, 1891, 1892, 1895a, b, 1896, 1903 and 1907). Ten of the described species were collected from the Carpathian Basin but several species have a dubious locus typicus, it is impossible to decide whether they were captured in- or outside of the Carpathian Basin. The majority of his types are deposited in Eberswalde (DEI), a minority in Budapest. Konow's works on the Hungarian sawfly fauna was restricted to species descriptions. We have no record that he would have visited Hungary. The sawflies from Hungary probably were sent to him by Sándor Mocsáry.