Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 11() 1966
The Apoidea of the Babia Góra Mountain
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION. The studies of the fauna of the Babia Góra Mountain began in the XIX-th Century. First papers dealing with that fauna were published by the coleopterologists namely by Rottenberg (1867), Kiesenwetter (1869), Kotula (1873), Nowicki (1873), Stobiecki (1880, 1881, 1883) and Łomnicki (1893). They gave the lists of the Coleoptera and some records on the Rhynchota, Orthoptera, fishes, birds and mammalia of the Babia Góra. Kulczycki (1881,1882, 1883) published his papers on the spiders (Arachnida), Wierzejski (1896) worked out the fauna of the small lakes of the Babia Góra. Stobiecki has collected some specimens of the Apoidea of the Babia Góra and its closest surroundings. At last Niezabitowski (1889) published his materials of the fauna of the Phytophaga and Kulmatycki (1920) those of the ants (Formicidae). In the present century several papers dealing with this region have been published. First records on the Apoidea are included in the lists given by Kiss and Olasz (1907), who have collected their material in Polhora Orawska and Babia Góra, but chiefly on the southern slope of the latter during their excursion in September 1905. The species belonging to the Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera. Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera and Hemiptera were recorded by those authors. They have collected 9 species of bumble-bees (Bombus Latr.) and 2 species of the genus Psithyrus Lep. in the Babia Góra, but these are without any particular places of the collecting and any altitudes in labels. Some more recent publications contain the data on the Apoidea.
