Tóth Sándor - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): A Dunántúli-dombság és környéke szitakötő faunája - Natura Somogyiensis 16. (Kaposvár, 2010)
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TÓTH S.: A DUNÁNTÚLI-DOMBSÁG ÉS KÖRNYÉKE SZITAKÖTŐ FAUNÁJA 171 The dragonfly fauna of the South Transdanubian hills and its surroundings (Insecta: Odonata) This volume summarizes the results of the faunistical survey carried out on the dragonfly fauna of the South Transdanubian hills and its surroundings. In this area occasional dragonfly samples have already been made since the late 19 t h century. The first data on dragonflies were recorded by KOHAUT (1896) published in "A magyarországi szitakötő-félék természetrajza - The fauna of Hungarian Dragonfly" which listed 23 species mainly from the Balaton region. Further data from this region were collected by Sándor Mocsáry, Sándor Pongrácz, József Sátori and Mihály Wéber in the first half of 20 t h centaury. Based on the collection of Hungarian Natural History Museum ÚJHELYI (1955) published a paper with 44 species from this region. Around the 1950s the more intensive entomological research work started not only in Balaton region but also in the South Transdanubian region so the number of species significantly increased considering the growth of the data. From the second half of the 1970s the research of the dragonfly fauna of the South Transdanubian hills was organized in the framework "The Nature Landscape of the Mecsek Mountains and its surroundings ". The partial results of the former dragonfly recordings were published in several papers ( DÉVAI et al. 1978, 1993, TÓTH 1992a, 1992b, 1995, 1988, 1985b, 1990a, 1990b, 1996,2000, 2001a). The present volume contains mainly such as data which collected by the author in the past two decades. It may be considered as a faunistical baseline survey, and as a result of that, it does not contain morphological characters of the dragonflies nor their identification keys. In the introduction the author summarizes a short history of the dragonfly fauna research from the late 1800s to present day. A short description of the life history, characteristic habitats and nature conservation significance of dragonflies are also given. The chapter "Material and Methods " outlines a short description of the most important collecting techniques. The author emphasized the increased significance of the sampling of larvae and exuviums in research of dragonflies. The research work revealed that the sampling area and particularly the Balaton region and Mecsek Mountains are relatively well known with respect to the dragonfly fauna. This is supported by the high number of 58 recorded, protected, endangered species and sampling sites - currently reaching 1070. The degree of research can be seen on the UTM-maps of the species (grid 2.5x2.5 km). Out of the 23 Hungarian protected species 18 were revealed from this area. Due to the presence of dragonflies, the area represents an outstanding natural value. Its significance is enhanced by the fact that the list contains five Berne Convection spe-
