Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
100 Natura Somogyiensis Enikő Havas She was bom at Esztergom and graduated at Gödöllő, Szent István (King St. Stephan) University. Now, she works for the Plant Protection Service at Velence as plant protection supervisor. Her thesis was: "Latest investigation on the wild bee fauna of Tihany peninsula" (Havas 2007) under the supervision of Miklós Sárospataki. After her master grade, Enikő started her PhD studies in the same university. Till now, she hasn't finished her PhD, instead of this, she is happy mother of 2 beautiful children and married to Adám Staszny (her co-author). Enikő Havas and with her co-authors did wild bee faunistic investigations in Naszály Hill, Tihany Peninsula, Bodrogköz and Zemplén region (Sárospataki and Havas 2009a, b, Havas, Sárospataki and Józan 2008). She studied the effect of mining for wild bees, comparing the fauna of abandoned mines and the neighboring natural rock grasslands (Sárospataki, Havas and Pintér 2005). Enikő studied the wild bees of raspberry plantations (Sárospataki and Havas 2006). With Imre Pocsai and Miklós Sárospataki, they collected data of leafcutter bees preserved in Hungarian museums and used their data to estimate their nature conservation status. For other publications of Enikő Havasi, see the next entry. Viktória Répási (1975 -) Viktória graduated as zoologist at the Faculty of Veterinary in Budapest of Szent István (King St. Stephen) University in 2002. She is PhD. student of Péter Nagy, Department of Anmal Ecology in Gödöllő, where she studied nematodes. Viktória was employed by the Hungarian Natural History Museum from 2008 till 2009 where she studied the family Vespidae. Due to financial reasons, the museum cancelled the 2nd muzeologist position in the Hymenoptera collection, therefore her contract was terminated in 2009. Viktória with Enikő Havasi completed the wild bee database for Chelostoma, Megachile and Osmia species. They analysed and published their data (Havas et al. 2009a, b, 2011, Havas, Répási et al. 2009, Havas, Répási and Sárospataki 2009). With Libor Dvorak, they completed the latest checklist of Hungarian Polistinae species with their distribution data (Rjépási, Havas and Dvorák 2009). Bánk Botond Sipos (1968 Pécs -) entomologist and nature photographer, ex conservator of Mátra Museum in Gyöngyös. According to his biography: "I was born in 1968 in Pécs. 1 studied in Kisdobsza, Nagyszekeres and Püspökladány and graduated in ecology at Miskolc University. Since my childhood, I've been living in countryside, close to nature. Studying the life of forests, meadows, brooks and lakes made the inspiration to learn entomology. I was primary school student when I started correspondence with prof. Dr. László Móczár, who inspired me to begin studying Aculeata. He told me the story of his experiences with wasps with great enthusiasm. In 2000, I was admitted to the Hungarian Entomological Society. Within Aculeata research, I'm particularly interested in faunistic investigations of Embolemidae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Chrysididae, Scoliidae and Sphecidae (Sipos 2001, 2005). In 2000,1 was succeed to catch a specimen of Sceliphron curvatum which was new record for the Hungarian fauna. In 2001, I collected 2 other new species, in Foktő, namely Miscophus niger and Gonatopus distinctus (Sipos and Móczár 2007). In 2000, I organized an entomological exhibition on the Conference of Kalvinist high schools in Kunszentmiklós. In 2007, I worked in Bristol as volunteer in organizing the event: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 2007 housed in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. In 2012,1 won the photo contest of the Hungarian Entomological Society with my 7 pictures series on insects in action. I'm passionate about nature photography especially the technique of photographing offlying insects and birds (Sipos, 2014). The photography of their way of life and behavior is a great challenge and engagingly interesting. My photographs are published in the following journals: Rovarász Híradó (Entomological News), Vadász évkönyv (Hunter's Annals), Magasles (High-
