Az Alpokalja természeti képe közlemények 10. (Praenorica - Folia historico-naturalia Szombathely, 2008)

which several small volcanic hills lie. This and the floodplain and terrace of the right bank of the Rába constitute the Kemenesalja, which surrounds the Vas Ridge. There have been only sporadic entomological researches so far in the Vas Ridge and Kemenesalja, with regular collections only at Bajti, Ostffyasszonyfa and Kenyéri (VlG et al. 2006). The rare species in the Vas Ridge and Kemenesalja are these: Cortodera femorata, Ropalopus insubricus, Pronocera angusta, Leioderes kollari, Herophila tristis, Oplosia cinerea, Agapanthiola leucaspis, Calamobius fdum and Theophilea subcylindricoliis. The borders of the Vas Valley are the county boundary to the north, the Vas Hills to the west and the Rába-side to the south and east. Few natural landscapes remain in the Vas Valley, most of it having been taken over by settlement or farming. Most of the Vas Valley is unexplored entomologically, but a few rare species have occurred: Pedostrangalia revestita, Deilus fugax, Ropalopus femoratus, R. varini and Callidium aenea. Presentation of the data: in terms of the system and species names, the work of primary note is SAMA (2002). The specimens were identified using the identification guides by KASZAB (1971). Full species name and author, then literary references, with author, year of publication and page number, followed by the number of the literary reference in square brackets. The next paragraph contains occurrence data found in the literature with numbers of the literary references in square brackets. Then follow the collection data for the long-horned beetle specimens in the territory, arranged according to districts of Vas County (denoted by their initial letters). Where specimens have been collected in the same location, the name of the location appears only once and other data are separated by commas. The same applies where the same collector collected from a location at different times. In some cases, the location is followed by the Latin name of the plant association. The time of collection is followed by the habitat name (where the collector published it), then in brackets, an abbreviation for the method of collection and the initials of the collector. The data concludes with an abbreviation of the place the specimen is kept. The final section presents an outline of the known Hungarian distribution data for the species and of the main information to note about their habitats, based partly on the authors' own experience and partly on the faunistic literature on long-horned beetles in this country. Division of the county into districts and sub-districts sometimes runs into difficulties, as the various authors have used different names to describe the same localities, or even applied the same name to different localities. The divisions used here are those of ÁDÁM (1975). The plant names are those of PRISZTER (1998). BEVEZETÉS Vas megye faunisztikai kutatása az utóbbi néhány évtizedben, elsősorban a Savaria Múzeum Természettudományi Osztálya (Szombathely) tevékenysége révén öltött szervezett formát. Előtte, leszámítva a Kőszegi-hegységben 1936-37-ben végzett gyűjtéseket, csak néhány gyűjtő töltött rövidebb időt a területen. A Savaria Múzeum szervezésében 1976-ban indultak el „Az Alpokalja Természeti Képe" kutatási prog-