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Research of the Hungarian Niphargus species is a rather neglected field. This is due to the growing distance between the  level of knowledge about Hungarian species and the elaboration determined by the international publications, which had caused a hardly negotiable inconvenience in the judgment of the state of the Hungarian species. The clarification of species in questionable positions could be the starting point of further inland research. During our work, the species with Hungarian distributions were assigned based on the literature's data, and were evaluated with morphological examinations of the specimens collected by us from their type localities and other habitats. Considering the validity of the species we created three categories. Eight of the 20 species proved to be invalid or non-inland species, three remain in an uncertain taxonomic state, while nine are classifiable into the 'valid Hungarian species' category. During the 43 samplings in 27 localities we added new distributional data for seven species.

Two endemic Niphargus species, N. gebhardti Schellenberg, 1934 and N. molnari Méhely, 1927 are known from two caves of the Mecsek Mts. (SW Hungary). The species are morphologically close to each other and differ only in few characters. Although, the original descriptions contain only scattered information and few drawings, more characters can be found in the additional literature. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the available distinguishing morphological characters and to provide sufficient drawings to ease the identification of N. gebhardti and N. molnari. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]