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
146 Natura Somogyiensis Chalcididae. His extensive Apoidea collection mainly from Burgenland was identifed mainly by Ebmer, Schwarz and F. Gusenleitner. He has 2 important papers, one on the Cleptidae and Chrysididae of Burgenland, the other on the Pompilidae of Burgenland (Madl 1989a, b). Fritz Gusenleitner (27th January 1957 Linz - ) Curator of Hymenoptera, Landesmuzeum Linz. His early interest in entomology was inspired by his father Josef Gusenleitner. After his graduation at the University of Salzburg got employment at the Upper Austria Landesmuzeum (Linz) where he specialised in genus Andrena. With several co-authors, one of their very important monograph is the "Katalog der Bienen Österreichs, Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Hymenoptera, Apidae)". They list the wild bee species of Burgenland in separate table format (Schwarz, Gusenleitner, Westrich and Dathe, 1996). In their series on "Neue und ausgewählte Bienenarten für Österreich" or" Weitere Angaben zur Bienenfauna Österreichs" they published faunistic records from the Western Carpathian Basin from Niederösterreich and Burgenland (Várvidék, Őrvidék) from numerous places like Esslbachgraben, Mühlgraben, Tauka, Mistelbach, Zwingendorf, Nickelsdorf, Kramerberg S Minihof-Liebau (Schwarz, Gusenleitner 1997, 1999, 2003, Schwarz, Gusenleitner and Kopf 2005, Gusenleitner, Schwarz and Kopf 2001, Schwarz, Gusenleitner and Mazucco 1999). In Gusenleitner (1984) we find faunistic data on 24 Andrena species, not only from Austria, but from Hungary as well. With Maximilian Schwarz, they described Osmia mazzuccoi Schwarz, Gusenleitner, 2005 from Jois (Nyúlás), Stúrovo (Párkány) and Simontomya (Schwarz et al. 2005). The third author of this paper was Timo Kopf (17th July 1964 Hohenems - ) from Innsbruck. Erwin Scheucht (12th April 1957 Germany - ) Self employed graphic designer and illustrator, amateur Andrena specialist. He graduated in München. Scheuchl has teaching experience at 2 universities in Turkey: Hacettepe University in Ankara and Adnan and Menderes University in Aydin. Amongst numerous paper of him, from our point of view, his series of monographs are interesting, titled "Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Österreichs". Three volume has been published so far, namely "Anthophoridae", part 1st (Scheucl 2000), "Megachilidae und Melittidae", part 2nd (Scheuchl 2006) and "Andrenidae" part 3 with co-authorship of Christian Schmid- Egger. Although these are not faunistic works, still we find valuable faunistic data from Burgenland and Niederösterreich for rare species. In the volume 1 and 2 he reports 35 rare or sporadic species from Burgenland and 29 from Niederösterreich. Eugen Bregant (5th January 1937 Graz - 3rd June 2003) Bregant's father was general in the Austrian army and died before his son's birth. He attended his schools in Langegg, then in Gabersdorf and after the war in Graz and graduated at the Montanist College in Leoben. After his marrige, Bregant moved to Graz where he started to study natural history at Graz University but didn't finished it. He strated to work for a construction company and later joined to the Landesmuseum Joanneum at first to Department of Zoology, later to Botany. Bregant died relatively young after longlasting illnes. He has 2 papers on Chrysididae published in series "Hymenopterologische Notizen aus Österreich". In these 2 papers (Bregnant 1997, 1998), high amount of faunistic data we may find from Burgenland. Also, he participated in the project on the investigation of Sphecoidea fauna of Burgenland (Dolfuss, Gusenleitner and Bregant 1998).
