TY - JOUR AU - Vas, Zoltán AU - Kőszegi, Klaudia AU - Takács, Attila TI - First record of the Nearctic blue mud-dauber wasp Chalybion californicum (de Saussure, 1867) from Hungary (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) JF - FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA J2 - FOL ENTOMOL HUNG VL - 85 PY - 2024 SP - 35 EP - 39 PG - 5 SN - 0373-9465 DO - 10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2024.85.35 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34755288 ID - 34755288 AB - The Nearctic blue mud-dauber wasp, Chalybion californicum (de Saussure, 1867) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), is native to North America, and has been introduced to Europe. In this paper, the species is reported for the first time from Hungary, representing its third country-level record from Europe, following Croatia and Italy. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szabó, Zoltán AU - Buczkó, Krisztina AU - Korponai, János AU - Luoto, T AU - Begy, RCs AU - Haliuc, A AU - Veres, D AU - Hamerlik, L AU - Csorba, R AU - Zsigmond, AR AU - Darabos, Gabriella AU - Méhes, Nikoletta AU - Kövér, Csilla AU - Magyari, Enikő Katalin TI - Two chironomid-inferred mean July air temperature reconstructions in the South Carpathian Mountains over the last 2000 years JF - HOLOCENE J2 - HOLOCENE VL - In press PY - 2024 SN - 0959-6836 DO - 10.1177/09596836241236353 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34753315 ID - 34753315 AB - We present chironomid-based reconstructions of mean July air temperature changes over the last 2000 years from Lake Latoriței (1530 m a.s.l.) in the Southern Carpathians. A multi-proxy analysis was performed along a 58 cm long sediment core and two training sets were used for quantitative July air temperature reconstructions: the Eastern-European (EE, 212 lakes) and the Finnish-Polish-Carpathian (FPC, 273 lakes). The transfer functions had a coefficient of determination (r2) 0.88 and 0.91 with a root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) 0.88°C and 1.02°C. Despite possible biases resulting from methodological problems and the ecological complexity of the chironomid response to both climatic and environmental changes, the agreement of the temperature reconstruction of Lake Latoriței with other alpine records suggests that the transfer function successfully reconstructed past summer temperatures between 750 and 1830 CE. Biases in the temperature reconstruction in the period before 750 and after 1830 CE were likely caused by increased abundance of rheophilic and semi-terrestrial chironomid species related to increased inflow activity before 750 CE and local land use changes after 1830 CE, which was also indicated by increasing deforestation and increasing lake productivity in the pollen and diatom records. Our results suggest that the region experienced a warm period between 750 and 1360 CE, and a cold period between 1360 and 1600 CE followed by fluctuating summer temperatures until 1830 CE. These events were associated with the so-called ‘Mediaeval Warm Period’ (MWP) and the ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA), respectively. The inference models reconstructed a decrease in July air temperatures by 0.7°C–1.1°C during the LIA relative to the warmer MWP. We also demonstrated that the FPC training set gives better results, supporting that local/continental training sets are efficient to detect weak amplitude summer temperature changes in the Late-Holocene. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szőke, Viktória AU - Vas, Zoltán TI - New taxa described by the staff of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 2023 JF - ANNALES MUSEI HISTORICO-NATURALIS HUNGARICI J2 - ANNLS MUS HIST-NAT HUNG VL - 116 PY - 2024 SP - 1 EP - 11 PG - 11 SN - 0521-4726 DO - 10.53019/AnnlsMusHistNatHung.2024.116.1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34720611 ID - 34720611 N1 - A közlemény a Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj támogatásával jött létre. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Vas, Zoltán AU - FEIZI, ALI AU - TALEBI, ALI ASGHAR AU - HEYDARI, MARYAM ZARDOUEI TI - Contributions to the taxonomy, identification, and biogeography of Palaearctic Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), with the description of a new Porizon Fallén species from Iran JF - ZOOTAXA J2 - ZOOTAXA VL - 5418 PY - 2024 IS - 2 SP - 183 EP - 192 PG - 10 SN - 1175-5326 DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.2.5 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34692489 ID - 34692489 AB - New species and new records of Palaearctic Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are reported in this paper: Porizon dahaka Vas, sp. nov. is described from Iran, with a complementary modification to the identification key of the genus; seven Western Palaearctic species, namely Bathyplectes rufigaster Horstmann, Casinaria paramorionella Riedel, Diadegma mediterraneum (Constantineanu), Diadegma neomajale Horstmann, Diadegma tamariscator (Aubert), Eriborus obscuripes Horstmann, and Hyposoter fitchii (Bridgman) are reported for the first time from the Eastern Palaearctic region (Iran); four species already known from the Eastern Palaearctic region, namely Diadegma aculeatum (Bridgman), Diadegma elegans Dbar, Dusona stragifex (Förster), and Meloboris pektusana Vas, are reported for the first time from Iran, the latter with the complementary description of the hitherto unknown male. Additionally, further data are provided on the distribution of Lemophagus eburnipes Vas, a species recently described from Iran. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Vas, Zoltán TI - New species and records of Afrotropical Campopleginae V. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) JF - FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA J2 - FOL ENTOMOL HUNG VL - 85 PY - 2024 SP - 15 EP - 25 PG - 11 SN - 0373-9465 DO - 10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2024.85.15 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34685798 ID - 34685798 AB - Two new species of Afrotropical Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are described: Olesicampe africana sp. nov. from Guinea, and Sinophorus runei sp. nov. from South Africa, representing the first species of both genera described from the Afrotropical region, and, for the latter, the first species described from the Southern Hemisphere. Additionally, Dusona pauliani (Benoit, 1957), a species previously known from Réunion only, is reported for the first time from South Africa. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csorba, Gábor AU - Moldován, Orsolya AU - Schneider, Viktor AU - Németh, Attila TI - Conservation status of the blind mole rat populations in Hungary (Rodentia: Spalacinae: Nannospalax) revisited JF - BIOLOGIA FUTURA J2 - BIOL FUTURA VL - 75 PY - 2024 IS - 1 SP - 1 PG - 13 SN - 2676-8615 DO - 10.1007/s42977-024-00204-8 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34630012 ID - 34630012 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: Ministry of Agriculture; Hungarian Natural History Museum; Kiskunsag National Park Directorate; Hortobagy National Park Directorate; Koros-Maros National Park Directorate; Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate Funding text: We thank the Hungarian, Serbian and Romanian nature conservation authorities, and researchers (especially G. Boldog, A. Csatho, A. Csoka, JL. Delic, L. Demeter, Zs. Hegyeli, T. Horvath, Gy. Krnacs, B. Mikes, G. Molnar, T. Orcsik, K. Pompola, M. Roth, N. Stojnic, Sz. Sugar, O. Szekeres, L. Szel, A. Tamas, M. Tucakov, T. Vidra, Z. Vajda,) for providing the necessary permits and for their support during our work. The works underlying the processed research reports were funded by the Kiskunsag, Hortobagy, Koros-Maros and Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorates, and the Ministry of Agriculture. The Hungarian Natural History Museum has supported our work by many ways. AB - Regular reviews of long-term research and conservation programs are useful sources of information for future directions in science and for the assessment of current conservation status of taxa. In this paper, we compiled all available data from the last 10 years related to Hungarian blind mole rat populations and assessed this information according to the following main themes: systematics, distribution and threats, and conservation actions. Based on the most recent information, national and global risk assessments are provided for the three species of Nannospalax (N. montanosyrmiensis, N. hungaricus and N. syrmiensis), currently accepted as part of the Hungarian fauna. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kipp, Michael A. AU - Stueken, Eva E. AU - Stromberg, Caroline A. E. AU - Brightly, William H. AU - Arbour, Victoria M. AU - Erdei, Boglárka AU - Hill, Robert S. AU - Johnson, Kirk R. AU - Kvacek, Jiri AU - McElwain, Jennifer C. AU - Miller, Ian M. AU - Slodownik, Miriam AU - Vajda, Vivi AU - Buick, Roger TI - Nitrogen isotopes reveal independent origins of N2-fixing symbiosis in extant cycad lineages JF - NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION J2 - NAT ECOL EVOL VL - 8 PY - 2024 SP - 57 EP - 69 PG - 19 SN - 2397-334X DO - 10.1038/s41559-023-02251-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34602662 ID - 34602662 AB - Cycads are ancient seed plants (gymnosperms) that emerged by the early Permian. Although they were common understory flora and food for dinosaurs in the Mesozoic, their abundance declined markedly in the Cenozoic. Extant cycads persist in restricted populations in tropical and subtropical habitats and, with their conserved morphology, are often called 'living fossils.' All surviving taxa receive nitrogen from symbiotic N-2-fixing cyanobacteria living in modified roots, suggesting an ancestral origin of this symbiosis. However, such an ancient acquisition is discordant with the abundance of cycads in Mesozoic fossil assemblages, as modern N-2-fixing symbioses typically occur only in nutrient-poor habitats where advantageous for survival. Here, we use foliar nitrogen isotope ratios-a proxy for N-2 fixation in modern plants-to probe the antiquity of the cycad-cyanobacterial symbiosis. We find that fossilized cycad leaves from two Cenozoic representatives of extant genera have nitrogen isotopic compositions consistent with microbial N-2 fixation. In contrast, all extinct cycad genera have nitrogen isotope ratios that are indistinguishable from co-existing non-cycad plants and generally inconsistent with microbial N-2 fixation, pointing to nitrogen assimilation from soils and not through symbiosis. This pattern indicates that, rather than being ancestral within cycads, N-2-fixing symbiosis arose independently in the lineages leading to living cycads during or after the Jurassic. The preferential survival of these lineages may therefore reflect the effects of competition with angiosperms and Cenozoic climatic change. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Vas, Zoltán ED - Bajomi, Dániel ED - Csorba, Gábor ED - Sallay, Andrea ED - Vas, Zoltán TI - Darazsak és méhek T2 - Közegészségügyi kártevők biológiája - képes kézikönyv PB - Magyar Kártevőirtók Országos Szövetsége CY - Budapest SN - 9786150196831 PY - 2024 SP - 142 EP - 144 PG - 3 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34580159 ID - 34580159 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Vas, Zoltán ED - Bajomi, Dániel ED - Csorba, Gábor ED - Sallay, Andrea ED - Vas, Zoltán TI - Társas darazsak T2 - Közegészségügyi kártevők biológiája - képes kézikönyv PB - Magyar Kártevőirtók Országos Szövetsége CY - Budapest SN - 9786150196831 PY - 2024 SP - 62 EP - 67 PG - 6 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34580149 ID - 34580149 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - BOOK ED - Bajomi, Dániel ED - Csorba, Gábor ED - Sallay, Andrea ED - Vas, Zoltán TI - Közegészségügyi kártevők biológiája - képes kézikönyv PB - Magyar Kártevőirtók Országos Szövetsége CY - Budapest PY - 2024 SP - 176 SN - 9786150196831 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34580004 ID - 34580004 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -