Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia and int he former Yugoslavia from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 129 last from August of 1944. The collection contains specimens mainly from Szabadka and it's surroundings but also many places of the former Yugoslavia and also from Hungary and Transylvania. Alfred Taubert planned to publish his collection, but his and his family's tragic death made it impossible. His collection was scrapped by the Museum because of Anthrenus infection. The collection was identified by Alfréd Taupert himself (probably with help of Paul Blüthgen). He published one scientific paper, which is discussed in the Hungarian part of this work. Stjepan Krcmar (16th February 1965 - ) Professor at Dept, of Biology of Osijek University, Diptera specialist. Stepjan Krcmar started his career, after his graduation in Ősiek University, as primary school teacher in Macinec, later he worked for a secondary school in Zagreb where he was chemistry teacher. He continued his studies at Zagreb University, where he received his PhD in 1998. Stjepan Krcmar compiled the list of insect of Kopacky Rit Nature Park. In this list, hardly any Aculeata species are listed, only 2, namely Cephalonomia nidicola Szelényi, 1944 and Vespa crabro Linnaeus, 1758 (KrCmar 2014). The first species were included on the basis of Mihaljevic et al. 1999 (Melita Mihaljevic Dept, of Biology of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek and her colleagues: Darko Getz, Zdenko Tadic, Branka Zivanovic, Dragica Gucunski, Jasenka Topic, Irma Kalinovic and József Mikuska). Aleksandar Cetkovic (28th February 1961 Krusevac - ) University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, entomologist, specialized for Vespoidea. Aleksandar Cetkovic investigated the Kopaonik Mountains, Durmitor Mountains and provided the list of Vespoidea of these territories (southern region of the Carpathian basin) (Cetkovic 1988, 1996). "Taxonomic and biogeographical review of the social wasps (Vespidae, Hymenoptera), with special reference to the fauna of Serbia" was the title of his graduating thesis at University of Belgrade (Cetkovic 1985). In 2002, Aleksandar defended his PhD thesis titled "Diversity of the social wasps in the Balkan Penninsula and the adjacent regions" in the same institution. Furthermore, with co-authors, he has 3 papers on the recently introduced invasive Sphecoidea species providing faunistic data on their occurrence and distribution in the Southern parts of the Carpathian Basin. These species are: Sceliphron deforme Sm., S. curvatum Sm. and Isodontia mexicana Saussure (Cetkovic, Radovic and Dorovic 2004, Cetkovió et al. 2011, 2012). Ozren Polasek (1979 Bjelovar - ) Doctor of medicine, researcher, project leader "10001 Dalmatians", head of the Department of Public Health at the Medical School in Split. About himself "In high school I was involved in the research of insects, especially wasps, which I published in my first scientific paper in an Austrian scientific journal. But then it was time to enter college and despite my love of zoology, I enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb". Dr. Polasek graduated at the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 2003 and worked on his PhD thesis at the same institution which was completed at University of Edinburgh, UK in 2009. He currently works for the Medical School of Split University as an assistant professor of public health. He is also Director of the Croatian Center for Global Health. Ozren Polasek published 2 papers on Vespoidae. One on Polistes sulcifer Zimmermann (Polasek 2000) and the other on the variability of Polistes dominulus (Christ, 1791) in Croatia (PolaSek 1997). Raymond Wahis Belgian entomologist. He lives in Chaudfontaine, Belgium. In publication, Raymond Wahis has been active since 1948. He is specialized for Pomilidae. Pepsis wahisi Vardy is dedicated to his honor. He is member of editorial board of
