Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in the Austrian part of Carpathian Basin from 1760 till present
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 145 he published on wild bees of this region from Sofia with Robert Schmidt (Wien) (Pittioni and Schmidt 1942, 1943, Pittioni 1945). In 1945, he was released from the prison and returned home. He was employed in Vienna by a high school and almost a year later he was assigned to the Natural History Museum. This time, Pittioni returned back to the project of wild bees of Burgenland with a 326 pages monograph titled "Die Bienen des Wiener Beckens und des Neusiedlersee gebietes" (Pittioni 1952). Josef Gusenleitner (17th September 1929 in Hagenberg / Mühlviertel - ) Soon after his birth, his family moved to Linz, where the young Josef was educated and grown up. His early interest in natural history inspired by his biology teacher Prof. Gallistl, Upper Austrian botanist. Gusenleitner graduated at the University of Vienna where he completed his PhD thesis. His career started at the Federal Research Institute of Agtrochemistry in Linz. He participated in several entomological expeditions to Sicily, the island of Hvar, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Zimbabwe, Jordan and southern France and built his own private collection which amount approximately 80-90 thousand specimens. Josef Gusenleitner wrote the Vespoidea part of "Die Hymenopteren des Nordostalpengebietes und seines Vorlandes" providing faunistic data from the western part of the Carpathian Basin (Niederösterreich and Burgenland) from Apetlon i. Burgenland, Güssing i. Burgenland, Winden a. See, Mannersdorf etc. (Gusenleitner 1982). In faunistic point of view, his series titeld "Bestimmungstabellen mittel- und südeuropäischer Eumeniden" is also very important (Gusenleitner 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000). He was also co-author of the monograph the "Grabwespen in Burgenland" (Dolfuss, Gusenleitner and Bregant 1998). Hermann Dollfuss (13 April 1939 Mank - ) Originally, he devoted his life to music but after their musical studies, he admitted to the Faculty of Natural History and Philosophy of University of Vienna. Hermann Dolfuss specialized for Sphecidae. In his monograph, titled "Bestimmungsschlüssel der Grabwespen Nord- und Zentraleuropas", he discusses the Sphecoidea fauna of Central Europe, mainly the species of the Carpathian Basin (Dollfuss 1991). In his series, titeld "The Crabroninae wasps of Biologiezentrum Linz", very valuable data of Crabroninae are listed from all countries of the Carpathian Basin (Dollfuss 2004, 2006, 2008 a, b, 2010 and 2013). Finally, Hermann Dollfuss is the first author of the monograph on the Sphecoid wasps of Burgenland (Dolfuss, Gusenleitner and Bregant 1998). Andreas Wimmer Ebmer (8th May 1941 Linz-Urfahr -) Andreas Ebmer graduated at the grammar school of Wilhering. His interest to entomology reaches back to his age of 14 when he started to collect butterflies. The 18 years old boy entered the Cistercian Abbey of Wilhering and studied theology at the University of Innsbruck. Later, professor Priesner and Paul Blüthgen helped him to get deep knowledge in Aculeata and to be specialised for Halictidae bees. Andreas Ebmer is co-author in a paper, discussing wild bees of Niederösterreich and Burgenland (Zettel, Ebmer and Wiesbauer 2006). In 1969, he described Halictus veneticus Ebmer, 1969 from Austria and Hungary and Halictus pannonicus Ebmer, 1969 from Oberweiden (Niederösterrich) (Ebmer, 1969). Further valuable faunistic data were provided from Niederösterreich and Burgenland in Ebmer 1998 and 2005. Michael Madl (13th November 1957 Frauenkirchen - ) He graduated at the University of Vienna where he's been working till now. Michael Madl specialised for the so far neglected groups of Hymenoptera like Gasteruptionidae, Evaniidae, Leucospididae and
