Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research int he Polish part of the Carpathian Basin from 1918
106 Natura Somogyiensis Waldemar Celary (1st December 1960 Lubliniec —) Professor Celary is not only one of the most productive researcher in Aculeata in Poland, but his very intensively researched area is the Carpathian Basin (Pienin Mts. Tatras, Polish Carpathian Mts.). Bombidae is one of his spéciéi field of research (Kosiór, Celary and Fijal 2003, Kosiór et al. 2007, Celary 1989, 2003, Celary, Fijal and Kosiór 2002, Celary and Wisniowski 2012). In their series with Bogdan Wisniowski titled "Contribution to the bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) of Poland" they provided distribution data in Poland for rare bee species providing their UTM coordinates (Celary and Wisniowski 2001, 2003b, 2007, 2011). Waldemar Celary has an important series on the Aculeata fauna of Babia Gora Mts. either (Celary 1998b, 2003a, b). Valuable distribution data we may find for Beskid Mts., Brzozów, Tymbark, Tamica, Zurawica, Lupków etc. frequently illustrated with UTM maps in his monografs on Polish Colletidae, Melittidae, parasitic Megachilidae bees, Nomadini, genus Nomada Scop, and genus Sphecodes Latr. (Celary 1898, 1997, 1990, 1991, 1995a, Celary and Dylewska 1988). On Megachile nigriventris Schenck, Sceliphron destillato- rium Iliig., Xylocopa valga Gerst., Lasioglossum sabulosum Wamcke and Andrena stragu- lata Illiger, professor Celary published faunistic data from the southern parts of Poland (Celary 1995b, 1996, Celary and Wisniowski 2003a, 2009, Celary et al., 1998). According to his self biography: " Waldemar Celary was born in a traditional mining family. He attended primary and high school in Jastrzfbie Zdrój on Upper Silesia. He begun biological studies on University of Silesia in Katowice. After four years his fascination to Aculeata (wasps and bees) led him to Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He graduated in 1985 with a Msc degree in biological sciences. On a very same year he started his first job as an assistant in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, got married to Barbara Kaczmarczyk and had his firstborn son. His wife is a oligofrenoeducator, and she works in a school for students with special needs. His son Piotr is a Czestochowa University of Technology graduate. Celary received his doctors degree in 1992 based on a dissertation entitled ’’Genus Nomada Scop. (Apoidea, Hymenoptera) in Poland”. Then in 2006 he qualified as a assistant professor with a thesis entitled “Biodiversity and Biology of Mellűid Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) in Poland”. Both of his degrees were given by the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. Since 2006 until now he works for Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce as a professor and a head of Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Protection. He published seventy scientific papers concerning biodiversity, biology, behaviour and ecology of aculeates (mainly wild bees). He is also interested in sociobiology and nature photography." Yuriy Andreyevich Pesenko ( 18th October 1944 - 23 September 2007; Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Pesenko graduated at Rostov-on-Don State University, Russia. After his graduation he had 3 years postgraduate student years at All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection in St. Petersburg - Pushkin. Till his early death, Pesenko worked for the Laboratory of Insect Taxonomy of Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. With co-authorship of Józef Banaszak (his biography see above), Vladimir Radchenko (director of Institute of Evolutionary Ecology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Tornász Cierzniak (his biography see above) completed 2 monographs, titled "Bees of the family Halictidae (excluding Sphecodes) of Poland" and "Blonkówki - Hymenoptera, Pszczolowate - Apidae, Podrodzina - Halictinae". In these monographs, they discuss the morphology, life history and distribution of halictid bees and also provided keys for the species. They give their distribution in details providing high number and valuable data on the bee-fauna of the Polish Tatra, Pieniny Mts., Bieszczady Mts. and Beskid Mts. Distribution data are frequently illustrated with maps (Pesenko et al. 2000, 2002).
