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 179 Muzeum Przyrodnicze im. prof. Wladyslawa Rydz.ewskiego Uniwersytetu Wroclaws kiego The museum was established in 1814. The hymenoptera collection exceeds the 100 000 specimens. Aculeata specimens from the Polish Carpaths are also exist including some types of Jan Noskiewicz. Serbia Prirodnjacki muzej u Beogradu The museum is founded as "Jestastvenicki museum" by the act of the Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia in 1895. The total entomological collection amounts 450 000 specimen. We don't have any information on the Hymenoptera collection. According to the publications of Serbian auctors, numerous Aculeata are deposited in the collection from North Serbia. The most important collectors Simeun Grozdanic, Zivomir Vasic and Zoran Mucalic. Slovenia Ljubjana, Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije The museum was founded in 1821 as the Camiolan Estates Museum (Krainisch Ständisches Museum). Five years later, the Austrian Emperor Francis II decided to personally sponsor the museum and ordered its renaming to transfer to the Camiolan Provincial Museum. In 1882, the museum was renamed from Camiolan Provincial Museum to C. P. M. Rudolphinum in honour of Crown Prince Rudolph. Later, its name was changed to National Museum. In 1944, it was divided into the National Museum of Slovenia and the Slovenian Museum of Natural History. The Museum has significant Hymenoptera collection which contains specimens from the Carpathian Basin either. The most important part of the collection are the Aculeata specimen collected by Evgen Jaeger especially around Podcetrtek. The presen curator of the collection is Dr. Andrej Gogala. The total Hymenoptera collection is about 10 800 specimens, mostly from Slovenia. No types are deposited from the Carpathian Basin. Croatia Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej, Zagreb It was founded in 1846, as the "National Museum". The National Museum was later split up into five museums, three of which were in 1986 merged as departments of the newly named Croatian Natural History Museum. The Hymenoptera collection contains 42 000 specimens in which the most significant is the Korlevic collection. Most of the types of Vatroslav Vogrin are also deposited in this collection. The majority of the specimens are from the Dalmatian sea side but there are also specimens from the Carpathian basin (North Croatia).
