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 93 I have been interested in animals since my early childhood, but especially in Arthropods. But it was only after 1970 that I began collecting and studying insects seriously. My first step was connected with butterflies. In the period between 1970 and 1979 I have been passing gradually from Rhopalocera to Noctuidae and Sphingidae. In 19771 entered the Biological Faculty of the Moscow Lomonosov State University. In 19791got acquainted with G. M. Dlussky (he was a specialist in Formicidae) who showed me the diversity of Hymenoptera. After this meeting I became a student of Hymenoptera and turned to research work on Aculeata, especially Sphecidae. After graduating from the University in 19821 began working for the Zoological Museum, where I am a curator of Aculeata. I devoted myself to systematics research of sphecid wasps, especially Trypoxylini. Now I am collecting material on the Old World Trypoxylini for my review of this group in the USSR and in Palearctic region and then probably in the Old World in general." Antropov described Trypoxylon deceptorium Antropov, 1991 from many countries of the Palaearctic region including Hungary (Antropov 1991). Hans Richard Schwenninger (29th March 1953 - ) German Apoidea specialist at Büro Entomologie und Ökologie Stuttgart. He published some original data from Transylvania and Hungary (Németbogsán, Hadad, Budapest: Kamaraerdő and Verőce- Magyarkút) of Andrena curvana Wamcke, 1965 (Schwenninger 2013). Klára Gyires (2nd February 1946 Debrecen -) Professor of Semmelweis University, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy. She graduated at Debrecen University of Medical Sciences in 1970. Zsuzsanna Fürst (1939 -) Professor emeritus of Semmelweis University, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy. She graduated at the same university in 1963 and started her career at Chinoin pharmaceutical company. She retired as head of the Department. They completed a university textbook, titled "A farmakológia alapjai" (Bases of pharmacology) (Gyires and Fürst 2011) in which they discuss the chemical compositions, amounts, symptoms, mechanism and treatment of toxins of Apis mellifica, Vespula vulgaris and Vespa crabro. Raymond Wahis and Christian Schmid-Egger published few Eoferreola Arnold (Pompilidae) species from Simontomya (Pillich collection) (Wahis and Schmid-Egger 2002). (See their biographies in the Serbian and Austrian part of this monograph). Miklós Tóth (10th April 1953 Budapest - ) DSc, correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; scientific advisor of the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, author of more than 210 scientific publications and owner of 9 patents. His scientific activity ranges from the investigation of chemical communications of insect pests, pheromones to their aplication in practical plant protection. With coauthorship of Gábor Szőcs (Head of Department of Zoology at the Plant Protection institute of Hungarian Academy, specialist of chemical communication, chemical ecology of insect pests), István Ujváry (27. March 1953 Szekszárd - ), chemical engineer and researcher, senior researcher of the Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences till his retirement) Zsolt Kárpáti (senior researcher of Department of Zoology at the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, specialist of neurophysiology, graduated at Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest as biology teacher in 1998), and Tibor Jermy (31st January 1917 Lőcse - 23rd September 2014 Budapest, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences specialized for zoosociology-synbiology, ecology, experimental insect ecology, evolution) published a conference summary (Tóth et al. 2001) on a new type of funnel pheromone traps designed for Noctuidae, Geometridae and Vespidae.
