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

Phylum Arthropoda 9 9 Other works on salt-tolerant and halophilic 'haustellate' insects to mention are two studies by LOTHAR MACHURA (1935a and 1935b) and the activity of GÉZA HORVÁTH. The last recorded the occurrence of 250 species in the region (HORVÁTH 1923). In the case of Fertő, SÁNDOR ANDRIKOVICS published the commonest bug species in the pondweed of the lake. Interesting Heteroptera species on the Austrian side of the lake were presented by E. WAGNER (1965). A team from the Ecology and Zoosystematics Department of the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences in Budapest under IMRE LOKSA made intensive investigations in the Fertő district in 1982-6 using pitfall traps and Berlese funnels. This unusual extraction method produced very valuable material on soildwelling bugs. Processing the plant-bug material gathered was started in 1998 by LEVENTE HUFNAGEL. He presented in a shorter communication four species of Saldidae collected, one of which, Salda mueUeri (Hegykő), was new to the Hungarian fauna (HUFNAGEL 1998). Staff of the Hungarian Natural History Museum recently began intensive collecting in the Fertő-Hanság National Park. Aggregating the data for three collecting periods, 332 plant-bug species are known from the area. The latest collections revealed three species new to the Hungarian fauna: Cardiastethus fasciiventris, Lygocoris contaminatus and Psallus flavellus (BAKONYI et al. 2002). The plant bugs collected under the Natural History of the Őrség research programme were processed by ELŐD KONDOROSY and BEÁTA HARMAT (1997). This revealed 234 plant-bug species in the district. The authors consider that the species count could be substantially increased by choosing carefully and perfecting the collection methods. The material yielded ten species new to the Hungarian fauna: Dictyla convergens, Agramma ruficorne, Bryocoris pteridis, Dichrooscytus rufipennis, Lygus wagneri, Orthotylus ericetorum, Criocoris nigripes, Psallus mollis, Plesiodema pinetellum and Panaoms adspersus. The Őrség collection data on species new to the Hungarian fauna also appear in another paper (KONDOROSY 1997). Data on West Hungarian specimens of Eurydema species belonging to the shield-bug (Pentatomidae) family appear in a study by PÁL BENEDEK (1966b). Data from the West Hungarian border region also appear in an article of his on the faunistic, ethological and nutrition data of Pentatomoidea species found in Hungary (BENEDEK 1967). Locality data for Aphelochirus aestivalis in Hungary appeared in an article that also communicated several occurrences of the species in the West Hungarian border region (AMBRUS et al. 1995b; KOVÁCS and AMBRUS 2001a). Order Auchenorrhyncha (leafhoppers) Several records for the West Hungarian border region appear in the Hemiptera chapter of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé. The sub-chapter on leafhoppers was revised by GYULA SÁRINGER, SO that the data can be read with present-day nomenclature (SÁRINGER 1966). Hungarian occurrence data on two species of delphacid leafhopper (Delphacidae) published by MRS ERZSÉBET VIRÁG JÁSZAI (1967) include light-trap data from the West Hungarian border region.