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

Phylum Arthropoda 131 and GYÖRGY CSÓKA presented the Palearctic distribution of Andricus gallaeviscosus and mentioned the localities of the species in Hungary, which to our present knowledge is restricted to the Sopron and Kőszeg area. The unisexual form of the species has become very common on Quercus petraea in the Kőszeg Hills (MELIKA and CSÓKA 1998). Order Trichoptera (caddis flies) The first publication to mention caddis flies in the West Hungarian border region was a monograph by ADOLF KUNCZ (1880), which cited two species (Phryganea grandis and Limnephilus rhombicus) from Szombathely. SÁNDOR MOCSÁRY (1896b) in Fauna Regni Hungáriáé reported on two species from Szentgotthárd (Agrypina varia and Phryganea grandis) and a newer species (Grammotaulius nitidus) from Kőszeg. It is curious that the volume contains no data from Fertő. LAJOS VARGA (1929C) mentioned caddis larvae damaging fishermen's nets on Fertő, without specifying a species. New records of the region were published almost 80 years later by SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI, who dealt mainly with caddis fauna in the Őrség. The sources were caddis material collected over three years using the national light-trap networks, work by ZOLTÁN MÉSZÁROS on Fertő using lamps, ZOLTÁN AMBRUS'S collecting of caddis flies from Sopron, and light-trap catches by ÁKOS UHERKOVICH at Magyarszombatfa, Szalafő, and for a while, Szakonyfalu, in 1975-6. Two publications on other subjects by SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI (1971 and 1981b) contain data on the caddis flies of the West Hungarian border region. They were followed by the processing results, which reported the occurrence of 79 species in the region, of which five were new to the Hungarian fauna. Limnephilus elegáns and Platyphylax frauenfeldi were found on the acid marsh of Magyarszombatfa, and Rhyacophila hirticornis and R. laevis in the vicinity of Velem. Chaetopteryx rugulosa is another characteristically Alpine species. Apart from these, two species were found in Hungary for only the second time, on the acid marshes of the Őrség (ÚJHELYI 1981a and 1983). From Fertő, SÁNDOR ANDRIKOVICS (1973) cited a single larval specimen of Cyrnus flavidus, but the assignation was probably wrong, as the species has not been found since (see UHERKOVICS and NÓGRÁDI 2002). In other communications, he recorded larvae of five species near Fertőrákos (ANDRIKOVICS 1980a) and of seven in the reed beds of Hidegség (ANDRIKOVICS 1980b). SÁNDOR ÚJHELYI (1982), during a revision of the Hydropsyche species occurring in Hungary, found five species in the vicinity of Fertőrákos. Meanwhile the caddis flies caught in a light trap at Fertőrákos were processed and 31 species found to occur. Hydoptila dampfi proved to be new to the Hungarian fauna. The caddis fauna of the Hungarian side of Fertő was processed by ANDRIKOVICS and ÚJHELYI (1983). The locality list and species register of the Trichoptera material collected by ÚJHELYI and held in the Hungarian Natural History Museum were published by SÁRA NÓGRÁDI (1995). SÁRA NÓGRÁDI and ÁKOS UHERKOVICH spent 1983-5 examining the caddis fauna of the Kőszeg Hills, collecting over 2000 specimens of 88 species with light traps, lamps and