Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
86 Natura Somogyiensis 1960, 1967). Before publishing each booklet, he collected and published the faunistic data of each group in the Carpathian Basin based on the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Móczár 1953a,b, 1954b, 1955, 1956a, c, 1957b, 1958b, 1959, 1961a,b). Finally, Miklós Móczár has one paper on pollination ecology (Móczár 1954a) and an other paper on bee gynandromorphy (Móczár 1956b). László Móczár (10th December 1914 Kiskunfélegyháza - 3rd July 2015 Budapest) was bom in Kiskunfélegyháza, but since Miklós Móczár, his father, got job in Kassa (now Kosice), the family moved there. At the beginning of World War I, because of the Russian troops from Bártfa (now Bardejov) invaded our country, together with his family moved back to Kiskunfélegyháza. When the danger passed, the Móczár family returned back again to Kassa (Kosice), but Hungary lost the city and they had to escape again. In 1939, he was called for military service for two years effective. After six weeks of basic training, he participated in the fights for Transcarpathia, Transylvania and the Southern Regions of Hungary. When Transylvania returned back to Hungary, he worked as lecturer of Franz Joseph University, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca). After the WW 2, the next 25 years, he spent as the curator of Hymenoptera Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest with a longer interruption: due to political reasons under the stalinist regime, he was relocated to Pécs (Southern Transdanubia) for few years. The next 45 years, he spent in Szeged as professor of Attila József University of Sciences, Department of Zoology. After his retirement, he returned back to Budapest and he was active nearly till the end of his exceptionally long life, at his age of 101. During this long period, he published 227 scientific works including 11 books and described 230 Hymenoptera species new to science world wide. László Móczár regularly took part in faunistic researches of the Hungarian Natural History Museum and also did independent faunistic researches. These works took place in divers locations in the Carpathian Basin (Móczár 1938c, 1950a), in Hungary, various places: (Móczár 1938a, g, 1939b, 1941a, 1943a, 1944a, 1946a, 1952b, 1954c, 2955a, 1956c, 1958b, c, 1974e, Móczár and Schwarz 1968, 1970, Móczár et al. 1972, Móczár and Warncke 1972), in Nagykörös and Szeged (Móczár 1943d), in Jászberény (Móczár 1939d), in Kudsir Hills (Móczár 1938j), in Pótharaszt-puszta (Móczár 1938Í), in Kőszeg-Hills (Györffy et al. 1940), in Kassa (Móczár 1941b), in Tihany (Móczár 1946b), in Bars county (Móczár 1947a), in Transylvania (Móczár 1947c), in the Carpathians (Móczár 1949), in Bátorliget Nature Reserve (Móczár 1953d, 1990b), in Kiskunság National Park (Móczár 1979b, c), in the sodic and sandy territories of Hungary (Györffy and Móczár 1981), in Bugac National Park (Móczár and Györffy 1982), in Hortobágy National Park (Móczár 1983b), in Bükk National Park (Móczár 1996a) and in Aggtelek National Park (Móczár 1999). He organized the series titled Catalogus Hymenopterorum I-XXVI. listing the families and genera of animals of the Carpathian Basin and completed the zoogeographical map of the area. In the series of Fauna Hungáriáé he wrote the following books on Aculeata: Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea II., Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea (Móczár 1956a, 1959d, 1967d, 1996b). László Móczár completed the world catalogue of Mesitiinae subfamily of Bethylidae and the world revision of subfamilies Ceropalinae and Cleptinae. He described 24 new species and new variations from the Carpathian Basin as they are listed separately. In systematics, his main field of interest was genus Odynerus (Móczár 1937, 1938e), Pompilidae (Móczár 1946c, d, 1953c, 1955b), Crabroninae (Móczár, 1957a, 1958a), Ceropalidae (Móczár 1978a, 1986c, d, 1987a, 1988a, 1989b, 1990a, 1991, 1993, 1994), Chrysididae and Cleptidae (Móczár 1951b 1964a, c, 1996b, 1997a,
