Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 85 Institute, where he founded the national plant protection forecasting system which became the basis of a new, environmental friendly way of plant protection. Finally, he was recalled back to Keszthely University. Professor Manninger studied the way of increasing the population density of Megachile centuncularis and other wild bee species to reach better pollination for alfalfa cultures, he also studied the parasites of M. centuncularis (Manninger 1967, 1979, Manninger and Apjok 1967). His co-author was Ferenc Apjok (1934 - , Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár, graduated at University of Agriculture in Gödöllő). Hermann Priesner (19th November 1891 Linz - 11th August 1974 Linz) professor of University of Fouad and Ibrahim in Cairo till his retirement in 1957. See his biograpy in the Austrian part of this monograph. Priesner described 2 species from Hungary: Priocnemis pillichi Priesner, 1960, described from: Simontomya, is a valid species, the other, Auplopus rectus pallipes Priesner, 1967 described from: Simontomya, Winden, Neusiedl, Wien and Banyuls-sur-Mer is a synonym of Auplopus rectus (Haupt, 1927) (Priesner 1960, 1967). Stefan Negru (27 January 1923 Epureni - 21 November 1970) published few cuckoo wasp species from the Kolozsvár university collection from Kispest and Budapest (Negru 1960). Jacques de Beaumont (26th September 1901 Genf - 29th September 1985 Genf) completed his primary and secondary schools and university studies in Genf, and defended his PhD thesis in 1929. He started his career at the University of Lausanne where he became head of the Laboratory of Zoology and docent of entomology and for 2 years he held the position of dean of Faculty of Science. Additionally he was curator and later director of the Zoological Museum of Lausanne University. Beaumont described Cerceris impercepta de Beaumont, 1950 from Hungary (Beaumont 1950). Miklós Móczár (3rd December 1884 Kiskunfélegyháza - 16th January 1971 Budapest, bee specialist). Miklós Móczár was the 9th son of a 15 children family of a well known miller builder István Móczár. After receiving his certificate from the local pedagogical college in Kiskunfélegyháza, he continued his studies and graduated at Pedagogical College of Budapest in 1906. He completed it with additional 2 years study at the Péter Pázmány University of Sciences. After a teaching period at Kassa Pedagogical College, Miklós Móczár returned home, and became professor of the local pedagogical college. In these years, he published his early faunistic researches (Móczár and Henter 1907, Móczár 1911). After this two papers, there was 42 years break in his publication activity in hymenoptera. In Móczár (1911), he added 135 Aculeata species to the fauna of his home town. Pál Henter was class mate of Mikós Móczár at Pedagogical College at Budapest (called Pedagogicum), they published occurence of 600 Hymenoptera species, dominantly Aculeata from the various regions of Hungary collected by the authors, László Sztancsik and Jenő Zepeniág (Móczár and Henter 1907), the identifications of the young students were revised by Sándor Mocsáry. Later, Móczár was appointed to director of pedagogical college of Jászberény till 1942. During the WW 2, they escaped to Újvidék. After the war, he was employed by the Hungarian Tax Office as tax inspector. After his retirement (from 1951) he worked as paid voluntier ("retired researcher") for the Hymenoptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. In his late years in the museum, Miklós Móczár completed 4 booklets in the series titled Fauna Hungáriáé on Colletidae, Halictidae, Melittidae, Apidae and Megachilidae (Móczár 1957a, 1958a,
