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

Phylum Arthropode! Ill studied the Kőszeg materials collected by GÉZA HORVÁTH in 1933 and the still unprocessed material from KASZAB'S collections in the June 22-July 20 period of 193 7. Further data included in the enumeration came from the manuscript register of ALFONZ FREH, from the Benedictine Grammar School in Kőszeg, which he had completed in 1893. This was fuller than the list that had appeared in 1878, probably because of subsequent collections. A few species entered the register from CSIKI'S own collection, most of which had come from collections made by GUSZTÁV SZELÉNYI. CSÍKI increased the beetle-species count for the Kőszeg Hills by 730, to 2100 species (CSIKI 1941a) and described a beetle species new to science (Sericoderus visnyae

—CSIKI 1940), although it emerged recently that this was a synonym.

32 The beetle fauna of the Őrség and Vendvidék were researched by JÓZSEF TRÄGER. The one article by this teacher at Szentgotthárd Grammar School known to the author instructs students on collecting beetles and finding locations. In addition, it provides very valuable faunistic records of occurrences by rare species, in some cases not collected in more recent research. He gives an occurrence record in the Zsida Valley for Agnathus decoratus and another rarity, Hypulus bifasciatus. His identifications can be confirmed from the diagrams that appear (TRÄGER 1937—Figure 12.8). LÁSZLÓ SOLYMOSY (1941) included altogether 3 8 species of longhorn beetle found in the Egervár district. Interestingly, the list includes Ergates faber, which is so far known in only small numbers in Western Hungary. Meanwhile, monographic treatments of beetle families began to appear from the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the material being collected in some cases from the whole territory of pre-Trianon Hungary. During this work, material from the West Hungarian border region underwent revision, and to put matters simply, some beetle species had to be removed from the list, while knowledge of the Hungarian fauna was enhanced by the addition of other species (ENDRŐDI 1959-69 and 1967; KASZAB 1924, 1940 and 1942; SZÉKESSY 1938-40, 1940-3 and 1943; TÓTH 1973 and 1981). Occurrence records for ground beetles (Carabidae) in the West Hungarian border region can also be found in the celebrated monograph of them by ERNŐ CSIKI (1946). PÁL SURÁNYI (1942) examined the insect mines made in the territory of Hungary, describing the mine types of several beetle species (and other insects) in the region. REZSŐ STREDA did important collecting work in 1914-19 round Pinnye, Hegykő and Fertő, within today's Győr-Moson-Sopron County. As parish priest of Pinnye, he spent much of his time increasing his collections, which give a comprehensive picture of the beetle fauna in a relatively small area. When ERNŐ CSIKI visited Pinnye, he also collected beetles there. ENDRE DUDICH gathered significant amounts of insect material at Pinnye for the Hungarian Natural History Museum's collection. 32 Sericoderus visnyae is a synonym for the widespread S. lateralis (Corylophidae). See BOWESTEAD, S. 1999. A revision of the Corylophidae of the West Palearctic Region. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis 3:1-202.