In Memoriam LÁSZLÓ PAPP
Abstract
LÁSZLÓ PAPP, ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the
Royal Entomological Society, died at the age of 75 in 2021. His entire dipterist carrier closely linked
with the Hungarian Natural History Museum. He was an excellent curator. The Diptera collection
counted 330,000 specimens when he became a curator and reached a million by the time he retired.
He described five new families or subfamilies, 97 new genera and 747 new species for science, and
discovered more than 2,000 Diptera species for the fauna of Hungary. He authored 368 articles, book
chapters and books, and co-edited three outstanding series (Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Contri-
butions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary). Together with Prof.
BÉLA DARVAS, they launched the series of International Congress of Dipterology and organised its
inaugural event in Budapest in 1986. He was active member of professional societies (Hungarian En-
tomological Society, Hungarian Parasitological Society, Hungarian Association of Ecologists, Royal
Entomological Society). His role in higher zoological education was indispensable in Hungary.
References
PAPP L. 1993. A repülő rovarok abundanciájáról. A légyfogás elmélete. Akadémiai székfoglaló, 1991.
április 30. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 46 pp.
PAPP L. 2021. New species of Apterobiroina L. Papp and Bentrovata Richards (Diptera,
Sphaeroceridae) from Australia. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67(2): 101–
117. https://doi.org/10.17109/azh.67.2.101.2021
PEREGOVITS L. & SOLTÉSZ Z. 2021. In memoriam Prof. László Papp. Acta Zoologica Academiae
Scientiarum Hungaricae 67(2): 99–100.
