Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Czechoslovaki, in Slvoakia and int he Czech part of the Carpathian Basin from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 123 Jakub Straka (28th February 1981 Brandys nad Labem - ) is associate professor of Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague. Under the supervision of Jitka Vilímová, he defended his PhD. thesis in the same university in 2009. Jakub is member of the Czech Entomological Society, editor of European Journal of Entomology, member of editorial board of Folia Heyrovskiana. Till now, he is author and co-author of 28 scientific papers and 2 books, many of them provide data from the Carpathian Basin, mainly from the Moravian Carpaths and also from Slovak territories in which, we mention firstly his series titled: "Faunistic records from the Czech Republic" (Straka and FarkaC 2002; Straka 2000; Straka et al. 2011). In Straka et al. 2004, they provide many Hungarian data either. In 2007, with Petr Bogusch and Petr Kment (chief editor) they compiled the "Annotated checklist of the Aculeata (Hymenoptera) of the Czech Republic and Slovakia" in which they reported 1453 species which belongs to the Carpathian Basin (Slovakia and Moravian Carpaths). In this monograph (Bogusch, Straka and Kment 2007), he participated in the Spheciformes (Veprek and Straka 2007) and Apiformes (Straka, Bogusch and Pridal 2007) parts. Jakub Straka also took part in the investigation of several areas, some of them are nature protected areas, these are Borská nizina (Smetana et al. 2010), Národní prírodní rezervace Vysenské kopce (Dvorák et al. 2007), Hády Hill (Riha et al. 2008), border area of Moravia and Silezia (Dvorak et al. 2010), Levoca (Léva) and Kremnica (Körmöcbánya) regions (Smetana et al. 2015). On the other hand, Jakub Straka with his co-authors provided valuable data on the distribution inside the Carpathian Basin of Polistes bischoffi Weyrauch 1937 (Dvorák et al. 2006). Also we may find interesting data on the work of Macek et al. 2007 in which Jakub Straka also participated. Finally, Jakub represents our region amongst the authors of the monograph on European bumblebees of Rasmont et al. 2015. Pavel Tyrner Litvinov, Czech Republic, private researcher, till his retirement biology and chemistry teacher of Litvinov high school T. G. Masaryka and director between 1999 and 2006. He was born on 23th March 1941 in Prague, where Pavel finished his school years. Pavel Tyrner graduated at Charles University in 1962 (Mgr.). After his studies, he moved to Litvinov where he taught at the local high school till 1999, when he was appointed headmaster of this school till 2007. Now, he is retired. His latest expeditions were to Mongolia (2005, 2007) and Iran (2010). Another expeditions he did in various European countries and Turkey. His special field of interest inside Aculeata, is Chrysididae. Several scientific papers of him are dealing with the Carpathian Basin either. In Bogusch et al. 2009, and Straka et al. 2011, faunistic records of various Aculeata groups and species are reported by Pavel Tyrner, some of them in the Czech part of Carpathian Basin. He has a paper focused on the Aculeata fauna of Borská nizina (Tyrner et al. 2010) . Pavel Tyrner completed the checklist of Chrysididae inside the "Annotated checklist of the Aculeata (Hymenoptera) of the Czech Republic and Slovakia(Tyrner 2007). With Libor Dvorák and Vladimir Smetana they studied the Vespidae, Apidae and Chrysididae fauna of Ostrava region, which is in touch with the Czech part of Carpathians (Dvorák, Smetana and Tyrner 2006). In Straka et al. (2004) (co-authored by Pavel Tyrner) we may find not only Czech, but high number of Slovak and Hungarian Aculeata faunistic data (Straka et al. 2004). In a series, titled "Faunistic records from the Czechoslovakia" Tyrner provided data on Tiphiidae and Sphecidae (Tyrner 1987), Sphecidae (Tyrner 1988) and Apidae and Chrysididae (Tyrner 1991) with numerous records from the Carpathian Basin. In Tyrner 1980, Chrysis lanceolata Linsenmaier were firstly recorded for Slovakia. With Jozef Lukás, Pavel Tyrner studied the Chrysididae fauna of Devínská Kobyla.
