Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 4() 1959
The Apterygotan Fauna of the Polish Tatra National Park
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION. The present paper contains the results of my studies on the fauna of the Apterygota of the Polish part of Tatra Mountains. I have begun these studies already in 1909, and continued these during 1918-1924 and further 1931-1937 years. I have gathered abundant materials of these insects and many observations on their life and occurrence in these mountains. Some of these observations and data concerning the species I have already published in various papers (1925a, 1925b, 1955a, 1955b) and in the monograph of „The Apterygotan Fauna of Poland“, which of work seven volumes have been published 1947-1957 up to day. The present paper on the fauna of the Apterygota of the Tatra Mts is published bearing on the collective studies and publications made by some zoologists of the Kraków Branch of the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the years 1953-1956 on the fauna of some groups of animals living in these mountains. My paper is attempted to draw an image of the Apterygotan fauna of the Polish part of Tatra Mts, in which a detailed list of species, data concerning the appearance of them in some biotopes and altitudes, zoogeographical composition of this fauna and its characteristics should be given.
