Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Aculeata collections in and around the Carpathian Basin
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 173 Aculeata collections in and around the Carpathian Basin Austria Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum The largest Natural History Museum of the region and also one of the most important in Europe with more than one million specimens. The museum is the successor of the Imperial Natural History Museum, established by Franz Joseph emperor and king of Austria-Hungary in the middle of the 19th century. The oldest entomological collections dated back to the 18th century. The total Aculeata collection is about 250 000 specimens and approximately 75% are from Austria, mainly eastern Austria including Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria etc. The collectors were mainly Priesner, Franz, Mann, Simony, Graeffe, Zemy, Fischer and Maidl. The Carpathian Basin Aculeata fauna is also represented in the rich type collection: types of Zimmerman, Maidl, Stoeckhart, Kohl, Handlirsch, Schletterer, Dalia Torre and Hoffmann. Biologiezentrum Linz The Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseen were founded in 1833 on the initiative of Anton von Spaun. The Natural History Department of the museum complex from 1993, is housed in the Biologiezentrum Linz. The insect collection is the second largest one in Austria with more than 4.5 million individual preparations. Aculeata specimens from the Carpathian Basin are not separated from the other species collected from Austria. Type specimens of 372 Aculeata species are deposited in the collection, some of them are from the Carpathian Basin, like Priocnemis hauptius Móczár, 1955. Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum One of the most important regional museum in Austria with 20 departments and institutions. The collection comprises high number of valuable objects of Styrian wildlife, culture and arts. It was founded in 1811. The insect collection mainly consists of pinned and dried exemplares, which are preserved in circa 4,000 drawers and protected from environmental influences. The Aculeata collection counts few thousand specimens identified by Dr. Ulrike Hausl-Hofstätter and published in her serial papers. The bees and wasps were collected mostly in Steiermark and in smaller part from the western Carpathian Basin (Burgenland, SE Steiermark and E. Slovenia). The Aculeata specimens are mostly collected by Karl Maly (1871-1947), Ing. Wolfgang Mensing (1860-1939), Dr. Lothar Panek (1884-1966) und Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Salzmann (1862-1954), Prof. Gabriel Strobl (1846-1925), and Dr. Ulrike Hausl-Hofstätter. Hungary Budapest, Hungarian Natural History Museum Earlier it was the Natural History Department of the Hungarian National Museum, founded in 1802. The Hymenoptera collection nearly reaches the 1 million specimens and contains types of about 6000 species. All regions of the Carpathian Basin are represented in the collection. Specimens collected from the Carpathian Basin are deposited in the Hungarian Collection (Hymenoptera Hungáriáé); the others are in the exotic collection (Hymenoptera Orbis Terrarum). The Aculeata collection is in 90% identified. The oldest Aculeata specimens were collected in the mid of 19th century (the hymenoptera of the Koy collection from the late 18th century lost). The Aculeata part of the Carpathian Basin amounts approximately 150 000 specimens. Aculeata types from the
