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 91 National Park, Cserhát (Józan 1971, 1983a, b, c, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990a, b, 1992a, b, c, 1993, 1995a, b, c, 1996, 1998, 2000a, b, 2002a, b, c, 2006, 2007, 2015a, Papp and Józan 1995, Sárospataki et al. 2009, Tanács and Józan 1993, 1999, Vaskor et al. 2015). His other important works are the various checklists and their additions, partly for Hungary and partly for Somogy county (Józan 2001, 2008, 2010, 2011). Józan has 3 papers on the Aculeata fauna of fruit orchards, mainly apple orchards (Józan 2008, 2014, 2015b). With Sipos Bánk Botond, they completed a short paper on the invasive digger-wasp, Sceliphron curvatum Sm. (JÓZAN and Sipos 2001). He, after 72 years of Móczár's identification, re-identified the Chrysididae species of the Kuthy collection (Ábrahám et al. 2014). With Zoltán Vas, they provided faunistic data and identification key for the newly introduced invasive digger wasps species (Vas and Józan 2014). Józan also participated in ecological projects of Miklós Sárospataki (with identification) investigating and comparing the wild bee fauna of various types of grassland in the Hungarian plains (Sárospataki et al. 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, Vaskor et al. 2014). The Zsolt Józan collection was purchased by the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár. It contains 60 576 specimens of 1563 species. The collection includes one paratype of Nomada platythorax Schwarz, 1981. Holger Heinrich Dathe (29th June 1945 Gettengrün - ) Hylaeus specialist, director of Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde between 1993 and 2010. Dathe published Hylaeus lepidulus Cockerell, 1924 from Budapest and Szentendre (Dathe et al. Witt 1996). Also five indefinite Hungarian records are available in Dathe (1980). He graduated and doctorated at Humboldt University in Berlin and started his career at Vertebrate Research Station of the Berlin Zoo. Gyula Erdős (chief medical officer, retired), Judit Szlobodnyik (chief medical officer), and Viktor Zöldi (biologist). All of them work for the Hungarian Epidemiological Center. They compiled "Methodological guide for protection against venomous Arthropods” (Erdős et al. 2004). In this paper, they discussed the most common Aculeata species with venomous stings, their life history, prevention, symptoms and treatment. Zoltán Barotányi (1966 Pécs - ) Journalist of Magyar Narancs (Hungarian Orange) and Tilos Rádió (Forbidden Radio). Zoltán graduated at Széchenyi István College (Széchenyi István Szakkolégium) in Budapest in 1994. He published a paper on the symptoms and treatment of the toxins of bees and wasps with focus on the toxin-specific immuno-therapy (Barotányi 2009). József Muskovits (11th April, 1943 Tárnok - ), chemical engineer, he graduated at Budapest University of Technology. His career started at the High Pressure Experimental Institute of OKGT. József Muskovits was there for 7 years, later he worked for Reanal, Chinoin and Olajterv (predecessor of MOL, Hungarian Oil Company). His interest in entomology started at his university years, when he took part in collecting trips with his fellow from the university. In the first 30 years, he studied Hungarian jewel beetles and longhorn beetles, subrecently he started to study at first velvet ants and now, he's been working on a monograph of cuckoo wasps. In the last decades, he established the largest private hymenoptera collection of Hungary (the largest, because the Józan collection was purchased by the Rippl-Rónai Museum). There are approximately 5000 specimens of velvet ants and 13-14 000 cuckoo wasps in his collection. He found 2 new species from Hungary for the science. The first is Cleptes hungaricus Móczár, 2009. The other is Smicromyrme pilisensis Muskovits and Leley, 2010.
