Kálmán Kertész (2 January 1867 Prešov,

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– 28 December 1922

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) was a Hungarian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He was the director of the Zoological Department of the

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in Budapest. Kertész world catalogues of the Diptera families

Tabanidae Horse-flies or horseflies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. They are often large and agile in flight, and only the female horseflies bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in s ...

and

Pipunculidae Pipunculidae is a family of flies (Diptera) commonly termed big-headed flies, a reference to the large ( holoptic) eyes, which cover nearly the entire head. The family is found worldwide and more than 1300 species have been described. The larva ...

were published in journals in 1900 and 1901, then between 1903 and 1907 he edited the whole Diptera catalogue of the Palaearctic Region and issued it in Budapest. This catalogue was together with

Mario Bezzi Mario Bezzi (1 August 1868, in Milan – 14 January 1927, in Turin) was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also director of the Turin Museum of Natural History (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Regional Museum of ...

, Paul Stein (1852–1921) and

Theodor Becker Theodor Becker (23 June 1840 in Plön – 30 June 1928 in Liegnitz) was a Danish-born German civil engineer and entomologist primarily known for studies on the taxonomy of flies. He worked with Paul Stein, Mario Bezzi, and Kálmán Kertész ...

as his co-authors. He worked on the world catalogue of Diptera which he planned to be 10 volumes and wrote alone. The first two volumes were issued in 1902 with the support of the Hungarian National Museum. The following 5 volumes were printed at his own cost in

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Works

*''Catalogus Tabanidarum orbis terrarum universi.'' Budapest, 1900 *''Catalogus Pipunculidarum usque ad finem anni 1900 descriptorum.'' Budapest, 1901 *''

Orthorrhapha Orthorrhapha is a circumscriptional name which historically was used for an infraorder of Brachycera, one of the two suborders into which the order Diptera, the flies, are divided. As the group was paraphyletic, it has not been used in classificati ...

Nematocera The Nematocera (the name means "thread-horns") are a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies but species from suborder Brachycera (the name means "sh ...

.'' in: ''Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren,'' Budapest, 1903. * ''Catalogus Dipterorum hucusque descriptorum''. I-VII. Budapestini, G. Engelmann (1902–1910)

Sources

*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997: ''Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758–1930).'' Volume 1 *(A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). – Leiden, Backhuys Publishers 1; 2 VII+1-426; 427–871 *Cresson, E. T. jr. 1923: ertesz, K.– ''Ent. News'' 34(4)

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