Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
108 Phylum Arthropoda it is only conjecture to say they may have come from the vicinity of Szombathely or elsewhere in Vas County. The next communication was the seminally important summary represented by the Coleoptera chapter of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé, by DEZSŐ KUTHY (1896). However, the materials incorporated in the catalogue do not include the locations given by FREH and KUNCZ. The meticulous authors of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé seem not to have known of these publications. (A similar instance occurs with the Lepidoptera chapter.) The species from the West Hungarian border region included in the catalogue came from the literature on the beetle fauna of the Sopron and Fertő districts mentioned earlier, or had become known through the collections of JÁNOS PÁVEL, a preparer of museum specimens who had collected in Vas County in 1890. 30 AUGUST SCHULTZE described a new Baris species (B. gudenusi) from near Vienna in 1901. A variety of this (var. purpurascens) was collected by SCHUSTER in Hungary, near Fertő (CSÍKI 1901). LUDWIG GANGLBAUER (1896) described a new Tychobythinus (Pselaphidae) species from Fertő, as Bythinus ottonis. He also published a Fertő occurrence record for Peltinus alutaceus (Corylophidae — CSIKI 1899a and 1899b). Fertő remained a popular destination for Hungarian and foreign coleopterists. A prime example was the work of the Austrian ADOLF HOFFMANN, who explored the beetles of the Fertő district and Leitha Hills for 25 years (HOFFMANN 1925). Also noteworthy were the collections of FRANZ SOKOLÁR, 30 ABAFI-AIGNER, L. 1901. Pável János. Rovarta, based on which PAUL BORN (1904) described the form of Carabus ullrichi sokolari. JOSEF BREIT (1911) gave occurrence records for several beetles of the Fertő shores (Harpalus saxicola, Pterostichus tarsalis and Agonum holdhausi [Carabidae]) and Sopron County (Micridium vittatum [Trichopterygidae = Ptiliidae], leg: MOCZARSKI). ADOLF HORION (1949) likewise gave beetle data from round Fertő, although he omitted to give detailed localities. ERNŐ CSÍKI (1899a, 1899c, 1904 and 1905) reported new forms and varieties from Fertő and Kőszeg but included in the first volume of his Coleoptera Fauna of Hungary only a single species (Carabus arcensis), giving Kőszeg as the locality (CSIKI 1905-8). JENŐ VÁNGEL (1906) published 1901-5 collection results for the whole Carpathian Basin in his third-year teachers' training college textbook, including data from Kőszeg and Sopron. ERNŐ CSÍKI (1909-15) included West Hungarian border region records in his monograph on the jewel beetles (Buprestidae) of Hungary. A big research programme into the food of common birds in Hungary that sometimes represented agricultural pests began in the 1900s. Specialists were recruited to examine samples of bird-stomach contents from various parts of the country. Several decades of work shed light on the food range of the chosen bird species and also yielded information about the distribution of beetles. The beetle remains in the stomachcontent samples were identified by ERNŐ CSIKI, who published his findings in eight articles that include plenty of records from the West Hungarian bori Lapok 8:132-6.
