Zoltán Vas

Position: 
senior curator
Department: 
Department of Zoology
Collection: 
Hymenoptera Collection
Address: 
H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13., Hungary
Mailing address: 
H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13., Hungary
Telephone: 
+36-1-267-7100 ext. 125
Email: 
vas.zoltan@nhmus.hu
Personal website: 
zoltanvas.uw.hu
Postgraduate/doctoral degrees: 
PhD
Research interest: 

Hymenoptera, primarily ichneumon wasps (Ichneumonidae)

Actual research: 

Ichneumon wasps (Ichneumonidae) faunistics, taxonomy, and evolution
Hymenoptera faunistics in Hungary

Expeditions and study trips: 

2015: Szilágyság

Teaching: 

Zootaxonomy: Hymenoptera – University of Veterinary Medicine

Exhibitions: 

Contribution to exhibitions (writing exhibit sript, providing advice)

2017: Museum Escape - escape rooms - content, conceptual design, implementation
 

Science dissemination: 

Appearance in Radio and TV programmes
Publishing in science magazines, both in print and online
Performances at special museum events (eg. the Night of Museums)

Selected publications: 

VAS Z. 2019: New species and new records of Campopleginae from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia entomologica hungarica 80: 247–271.

VAS Z. & BAKARDZSIEV K. 2019: Hybrizontinae of Hungary (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia entomologica hungarica 80: 273–278.

VAS Z. 2019: Contributions to the taxonomy, identification, and biogeography of Casinaria Holmgren and Venturia Schrottky (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae). – Zootaxa 4664(3): 351–364.

VAS Z. 2019: Darazsak  – Gesta Hymenopterorum. – Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest, 199 pp.

VAS Z. 2019: Contributions to the taxonomy, identification, and biogeography of Eriborus Förster, 1869 and Nepiesta Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae). – Opuscula Zoologica 50(1): 87–98.

VAS Z. 2019: New species and new records of ichneumon wasps from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65(1): 21–32.

VAS Z. 2019: Contributions to the taxonomy, identification, and biogeography of the Western Palaearctic species of Campoletis Förster (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae). – Zootaxa 4565(3): 373–382.

 VAS Z. 2018: New species and new records of ichneumon wasps from Hungary and adjacent countries (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 79: 81–100.

VAS Z. & SCHWARZ M. 2018: Contributions to the taxonomy, identification and biogeography of the Thaumatogelis Schwarz, 1995 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Zootaxa 4444(4): 421–436.

VAS Z. 2017: Data to the Vietnamese ichneumon wasp fauna with description of a new Teleutaea species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 78: 101–110.

ROSA P., VAS Z. & XU Z.-F. 2017: The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. – Zootaxa 4252(1): 1–130.

VAS Z. 2016:  Woldstedtius merkli sp. n. from Hungary (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 77: 57–65.

VAS Z. 2016: New records of wasps in Hungary and Romania (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Vespidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 77: 67–78.

VAS Z. & KUTASI CS. 2016: Hymenoptera from caves of Bakony Mountains, Hungary - an overlooked taxon in hypogean research. – Subterranean Biology 19: 31–39.

VAS Z. 2016: Contributions to the knowledge of Ichneumonidae and Gasteruptiidae fauna of Sălaj County, Romania (Hymenoptera). – Studia Universitatis “Vasile Goldiş”, Seria Ştiinţele Vieţii 26(1): 133–140.

VAS Z., SZÖLLŐSI-TÓTH P. & MUSKOVITS J. 2016: Contributions to the knowledge of aculeate wasp and ant fauna of Sălaj County, Romania (Hymenoptera: Aculeata, excluding bees). – Studia Universitatis “Vasile Goldiş”, Seria Ştiinţele Vieţii 26(1): 153–160.

VAS Z. 2016: Temelucha flavia sp. n. from the southern Mediterranean region (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae). – Ecologica Montenegrina 8: 38–44.

VAS Z. 2016: A new species of Temelucha Förster from Malta with an updated and revised identification key to the Western Palaearctic Temelucha species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae). – Journal of Hymenoptera Research 48: 67–84.

VAS Z., MIFSUD D. & BROAD G.R. 2015: New records of ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Malta. – Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta 7: 139–142.

VAS Z. 2015: New records of ichneumon wasps in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia with a key to the Western Palaearctic Xylophrurus species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 76: 223–240.

VAS Z. & SZENTIVÁNYI T. 2015: Contributions to the Albanian ichneumon wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Ecologica Montenegrina 3: 66–69.

VAS Z. & ZOMBORI L. 2015: First records of two symphytan and a crabronid species in the Hungarian fauna (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae, Diprionidae, Crabronidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 76: 217–222.

VAS Z. 2015: A Hártyásszárnyúak Gyűjteményének története / A brief history of the Hymenoptera Collection, HNHM. – Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 107: 87–100.

VAS Z. 2014: First records of two ichneumon wasp species in Kenya (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 75: 139–142.

VAS Z. & JÓZAN ZS. 2014: Új adatok és határozókulcs Magyarország lopódarázs faunájához (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). [New data and key to the Mud-Dauber fauna of Hungary (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae).] – Natura Somogyiensis 24: 157–164. 

VAS Z. 2013: First records of three ichneumon wasp species in Hungary (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). – Folia Entomologica Hungarica 74: 189–194.

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