Árpád Soós
Encyclopedia
Árpád Soós was a Hungarian
zoologist, entomologist and museologist. He is best known for his work on leech
es and flies (Diptera
) and, as co-editor with Lazlo Papp, of Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 1984- 1992.
Poloskák VIII. - Heteroptera
VIII. (Magyarország Állatvilága, 17(8), Bp., 1963, 1-48)
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
zoologist, entomologist and museologist. He is best known for his work on leech
Leech
Leeches are segmented worms that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea. Like other oligochaetes such as earthworms, leeches share a clitellum and are hermaphrodites. Nevertheless, they differ from other oligochaetes in significant ways...
es and flies (Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
) and, as co-editor with Lazlo Papp, of Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 1984- 1992.
Main works
- Identification key to the leech (Hirudinoidea) genera of the World, with a catalogue of the species. I. Family: Piscicolidae; II. Families: Semiscolecidae, Trematobdellidae, Americobdellidae, Diestecostomatidae; III. Family: Erpobdellidae; IV. Family: Haemadipsidae; V. Family: Hirudinidae; VI. Family: Glossiphoniidae (Acta zoologica hungarica, 11, 1965, 417-463; 12, 1966, 145-160, 371-407; 13, 1967, 417-432; 15, 1969, 151-201, 397-454)
- Spenidius horvathi gen. n., sp. n. aus Spanien (Homoptera: Issidae) (Folia entomologica hungarica 29(1), 1976, 87-91)
Poloskák VIII. - Heteroptera
Heteroptera
Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the Hemiptera. Sometimes called "true bugs", that name more commonly refers to Hemiptera as a whole, and "typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative since among the Hemiptera the heteropterans are most consistently and...
VIII. (Magyarország Állatvilága, 17(8), Bp., 1963, 1-48)
- Bábtojó legyek - Muscidae pupiparae (Magyarország Állatvilága, 15(17), Bp., 1955, 1-20); Torpikkelynélküli legyek I. - Muscidae acalyptratae. I. (Magyarország Állatvilága, 15(1), Bp., 1959, 1-88)
- Csupaszlegyek - Laposfejű legyek. Psilidae - Platystomatidae (Magyarország Állatvilága, 15(2), Bp., 1980, 1-100)
- Family Micropezidae (Tylidae); Family Neriidae; Family Tanypezidae; Family Psilidae; Family Pyrgotidae; Family Platystomatidae (Platystomidae); Family Otitidae (Ortalidae) All in : Soós, Á. and Papp, L. (ed.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Bp., 9, 1984, 19-59)
- 70 Clusiidae (In: McAlpine, J. F. et al. (ed.): Manual of Nearctic Diptera, 2. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Monograph No. 28, Ottawa, 1987, 853-857).