Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

Phylum Arthropoda 85 region can be found before that. Much of the collecting was done by ALADÁR VlSNYA. JÓZSEF SZENT-IVÁNY (1938b) drew attention to the importance of the Kőszeg Collembola material while describing the Apterygota of another region. Processing yielded 42 springtail species, including some species new to the Hungarian fauna (SZENT-IVÁNY 1940a). However, no publication devoted to the springtail fauna of the Kőszeg Hills has yet appeared. These days, GYÖRGY TRASER has been dealing effectively with the taxonomy and faunistics of springtails and the role they play in the soil (TRASER 1981). The springtail fauna of what would become the Fertő-Hanság National Park was first studied in the 1940s by ENDRE DUDICH and JÓZSEF SZENT-IVÁNY, but their results were unfortunately never published. Wide-ranging studies were started there in the 1980s by IMRE LOKSA, using pitfall traps (LOKSA and TRASER 1982), but details of the springtails collected in that period have not been published either. J. PACLT (1960), on a short trip in Hungary, mentioned three species (Onychiurus armatus, Entomobrya muscorum and Tomocerus longicomis) found in oakwood near Kapuvár. GYÖRGY TRASER carried out extensive Collembola collection in the national park in 1992-2000. This yielded six species new to science: Deutonura benzi (TRASER et al. 1993), Stenaphorulella metaparisi (TRASER and WEINER 1999), Neonaphorura loksai (TRASER and THIBAUD 1999), Metaphorura riozoi (CASTANOMENESES et al. 2000), Lepidocyrtus arrabonicus (TRASER 2000) and L. peisonis (TRASER and CHRISTIAN, 1992). Another 20 proved new to the Hungarian fauna: Anurida uniformis, Anurophoms atlanticus, Arrhopalites ulehlovae, Axenilloides ukrainus, Bilobella braunerae, Dicyrtomina saundersi, Fasciosminthurus virgulatus, Folsomia lawrencei, Folsomides semiparvulus, Isotoma anglicana, Mesaphorura betschi, M. rudolfi, M. tenuisensillata, M. yosii, Micranurida cf. meridionalis, Neelides minutus, Orchesella xerothermica, Paratullbergia macdougalli, Superodontella cf. sensillata and Thaumanura oniscoides. The total number of known Collembola species in the park is 187 (TRASER 2002), but this will certainly increase, judging by the richness of the Collembola fauna described and published from nearby Austrian habitats (GUNHOLD and PSCHORN-WALCHER 1956; BAUMGARTNER-GAMAUF 1959a and 1959b; LÖFFLER 1960; CHRISTIAN 1986 and 1987; BABENKO and THIBAUD 1990). The springtail material collected in the Őrség was also processed by GYÖRGY TRASER (1995), in what can be considered an initial account. Although the restricted collecting opportunities mean that only a fraction of the potential springtail fauna was found, there were some surprises. The most interesting was the presence of significant numbers of springtails in grassland and the foliage layer accessible by way of the grass. Of 54 species collected, Neanura alba, Onychiurus terricola, O. subnemoratus, Tetracanthella franzi, Heterosminthurus bilineatus and H. linnaniemii proved to be new to the Hungarian fauna. One specimen of the Heterosminthurus genus is probably new to science as well. Order Diplura (two-pronged bristle-tails) Two species of diplurans are known by Fertő: Campodea staphylinus and Japyx braueri (STACH 1928).