Systematic Zoology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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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 identified the material collected by the Hungarian soil zoological expeditions to Congo Free State (1964-65), and in the eighties and nineties, to Ecuador, Tanzania, and South Africa. During this work, the members of the group have described several new genera and  more than one hundred species new to 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 result of these activities reviews of earthworms, nematodes, spiders and mites of different countries of high environmental risks have been published.