The main research topics of the Systematic Zoology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the last years were exploring the biodiversity of the highly endangered territories in the tropical, subtropical, Mediterranean and Antarctic region. We have worked up the material collected by the Hungarian soil zoological expeditions to Congo Free State (1964-65), and in the eighties and nineties, to Ecuador, to Tanzania, and to South Africa. During this work, the members of the group have described several new genera and more than one hundred species new to the science. On the basis of material housed in different museums (Hamburg, Berlin, London, Geneva) and on own collections, we have carried out numerous taxonomic revisions in different groups of the pedofauna.. As a consequence of these activities reviews of the earthworms, Nematodes, Spiders and Oribatids of different countries of high environmental risks have been published.
Lists of scientific publications of the group: 2001; 2002; 2003, 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
New taxa described by the staff of the group: 2007, 2008
Pedozoologica Hungarica Monograph Series
Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis