Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
84 Natura Somogyiensis to Debrecen where he started to work for the university. From 1949, he joined to the Department of Zoology of Debrecen University and as university reader (docent) managed the department. In his paper, titled: "Neue Fundorte von einigen Hymenopteren auf der Ungarischer Tiefbene", he published faunistic data from Szeged, Tiszacsege and Hajdúhadház: Bocskay Garden (Symphyta and Aculeata) (Zilahi-Sebess 1939). Géza Zilahi-Sebess investigated the biodiversity of cultivated fields: few Aculeata species are listed from orchards in Tiszacsege and more species from potato-fields in the Northern Trans-Theis (Tiszántúl) region (Zilahi-Sebess 1955, 1956). He also contributed to the revision of genus Apis (Zilahi-Sebess 1932). Gusztáv Szelényi (5th September 1904 Késmárk - 14th October 1982 Budapest) Chalcididae specialist, professor of Budapest University of Agriculture, president of the Hungarian Entomological Society. Gusztáv Szelényi spent his early years in Pozsony (now Bratislava) and in Késmárk (now Kesmarok). After finishing the Mezőtúr Kalvinist High School, he admitted to University of Budapest, where he studied biology and zoology and earned teaching degree. Later, Szelényi doctorated at István Tisza University in Debrecen. He started working at the Entomological Station (later Plant Protection Research Institute). Parallel with his occupation at the Plant Protection Research Institute, he became professor of University of Agricultural Sciences, and guest professor of plant protection entomology at Eötvös Loránd University. For a period, Gusztáv Szelényi was president of the Hungarian Entomological Society. Two Bethylidae species, he described from Hungary, namely Cephalonomia nidicola Szelényi, 1944 and Odontepyris erucarus Szelényi, 1958 (Szelényi 1944, 1958). After his retirement from the Plant Protection Research Institute, he continued working as volunteer at the hymenoptera collection of the Natural History Museum and started to teach again at József Attila University in Szeged as honorary professor. Dénes Palotay (?-?) professor of Keszthely Academy of Agriculture. Probably, he is the author of a paper on the control of harmfúl Vespidae (Palotay 1947). Gábor Reichart (16th May 1917 Szeged - 19th November 1979 Budapest), plant protection specialist, graduated at Peter Pázmány University of Sciences in Budapest. After few years work at the genetic laboratory of the Seed testing Station, he got job at Plant Protection Research Institute where he worked till his retirement. Gábor Reichart reported his observation on Polistes gallica praying Flyphantria moth (Reichart 1958). Adolf Gusztáv Manninger ( 6th May 1910 Rácbóly- 10th December 1982 Budapest) agronomist, plant protection specialist, university professor. He completed his university studies in Budapest at József Nádor University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. After this, he completed two semesters at Georg August University of Göttingen. Following his father's advice, he worked for the University of Sopron, "Daniel Fehér" Institute of Soil Biology. After a short period of teaching at Debrecen and Székesfehérvár, he became professor at Keszthely Agricultural Academy, where he specialized for plant protection. Due to the (temporary) closing of countryside colleges, he was relocated to Budapest and Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences, Plant Protection Department and became dean of the faculty. At the time of the 1956 anticommunist revolution, Manninger was the university's vice-rector. During this period, he courageously supported the revolutionary student movement therefore he was dismissed from the university. After this, he worked for the Plant Protection Research
