Árpád Soós (20 September 1912, in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

– 1 June 1991, in Budapest) was a Hungarian

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

museologist Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and ed ...

. He is best known for his work on

leech Leeches are segmented parasitism, parasitic or Predation, predatory worms that comprise the Class (biology), subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the Oligochaeta, oligochaetes, which include the earthwor ...

es and flies (Diptera) and, as co-editor with

László Papp László Papp (25 March 1926 – 16 October 2003) was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olym ...

, for the Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 1986-1993.

Main works

*Identification key to the leech (Hirudinoidea) genera of the World, with a catalogue of the species. I. Family: Piscicolidae; II. Families: Semiscolecidae, Trematobdellidae, Americobdellidae, Diestecostomatidae; III. Family: Erpobdellidae; IV. Family: Haemadipsidae; V. Family: Hirudinidae; VI. Family: Glossiphoniidae (''Acta zoologica hungarica'', 11, 1965, 417-463; 12, 1966, 145-160, 371-407; 13, 1967, 417-432; 15, 1969, 151-201, 397-454) *''Spenidius horvathi'' gen. n., sp. n. aus Spanien (Homoptera: Issidae) (''Folia entomologica hungarica'' 29(1), 1976, 87-91) *Poloskák VIII. -

Heteroptera The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal al ...

VIII. (''Magyarország Állatvilága'', 17(8), Bp., 1963, 1-48) *Bábtojó legyek - Muscidae pupiparae (''Magyarország Állatvilága'', 15(17), Bp., 1955, 1-20); Torpikkelynélküli legyek I. - Muscidae acalyptratae. I. (Magyarország Állatvilága, 15(1), Bp., 1959, 1-88) *Csupaszlegyek - Laposfejű legyek. Psilidae - Platystomatidae (Magyarország Állatvilága, 15(2), Bp., 1980, 1-100) * Family Micropezidae (Tylidae); Family Neriidae; Family Tanypezidae; Family Psilidae; Family Pyrgotidae; Family Platystomatidae (Platystomidae); Family Otitidae (Ortalidae) All in : Soós, Á. and Papp, L. (ed.): ''Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera'', Bp., 9, 1984, 19-59) *70 Clusiidae (In: McAlpine, J. F. et al. (ed.): ''Manual of Nearctic Diptera'', 2. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Monograph No. 28, Ottawa, 1987, 853-857). 1912 births 1991 deaths 20th-century Hungarian zoologists Hungarian entomologists Dipterists {{entomologist-stub Museologists