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<div dir="ltr">Denali National Park and Preserve News Release
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Date: October
19, 2016 <span></span></span></p>
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style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Contact:
Katherine
Belcher, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:katherine_belcher@nps.gov"
target="_blank">katherine_belcher@nps.gov</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:907.683.9583"
value="+19076839583" target="_blank">907.683.9583</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:15pt;font-family:npsrawlinsonot;color:black">Denali
National
Park and Preserve Buzzing wih the Discovery of Two
New Species of Pollinators<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:15pt;font-family:npsrawlinsonot;color:black"><span> </span></span><i><span
style="font-family:npsrawlinsonot;color:black">Announcement
Highlights Start
of NPS Centennial Science and Stewardship
Symposium in Fairbanks<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p
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style="font-family:npsrawlinsonotold;font-size:10pt">DENALI
PARK, Alaska – A
pollinator survey conducted in Denali National Park
and Preserve in 2012 has unveiled
the discovery of two new species of pollinators, one
of which is found nowhere
else on earth. Fewer than 50 species of bumble bees
are currently known from
North America, and it has been nearly 90 years since
a new bumble bee species
was discovered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bit.ly/2eb3sWq"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold">A
recent paper</span></a><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold">
in the Journal of Natural History by Paul
Williams et al. describes the new species of bumble
bee, Bombus kluanensis,
known from just two localities: the Saint Elias
Mountains in Yukon, Canada, and
Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"><span> </span>The
new species is in the
subgroup Alpinobombus, which includes a handful of
northern species most of
which have circumpolar distributions, meaning they
are found primarily in
arctic regions across North America, Europe, and
Russia. Bombus kluanensis most
closely resembles Bombus neoboreus, commonly known
as the active bumble bee.
The determination that Bombus neoboreus is a
separate species came primarily
from genetic evidence, but there are also subtle
anatomical differences. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"><span> </span>The
second new pollinator
discovered in the park is a flower fly in the family
Syrphidae, which, as yet,
remains unnamed. It is in the genus Cheilosia, a
group whose immature larvae
feed on plant stems or fungi. Some species have been
used to control invasive
plants such as thistles. There are about 11 species
of Cheilosia already known
from Alaska and more than 80 found in North America.
They are generally small,
black, shiny flies. The single specimen collected
near the East Fork River in
Denali is the only documented individual of this new
species. It awaits a
formal scientific description and a name.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"><span> </span>"I
think these two new
discoveries really highlight the fact that there is
still so much to learn
about invertebrate biodiversity in Alaska," said
Jessica Rykken,
entomologist at Denali National Park and Preserve. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"> As
climate change and other
human-caused stressors threaten insect pollinators
and their relatives, it is
vital that we document the largely unknown arthropod
biodiversity in wilderness
areas such as Denali. Pollinator (and other
arthropod) inventories are ongoing
in Denali. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"><span> </span>A
more structured sampling
design along elevational gradients was initiated in
2016, and the hope is to
discover many more species in the years to come. <span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold">To
learn more about the vast diversity of invertebrates
that call Denali home, </span><a
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href="https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/nature/invertebrates.htm"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold">visit
us online</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:npsrawlinsonotold"><span> </span>In
celebration of the 100th
birthday of America’s national parks, the Alaska
Region of the National Park
Service is hosting a Centennial Science and
Stewardship Symposium this week in
Fairbanks. The symposium will highlight how science
and scholarship have shaped
the past 100 years of national park management and
provide a forward look at the
next century of preservation and protection in
Alaska's national parks.
Sessions will feature research and stewardship in
national parks and celebrate
the partnerships essential to park management.<span></span></span></p>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank"><font
face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Katherine
Belcher</font></a></div>
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sans-serif" size="2">Public
Information Officer</font></div>
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Park and Preserve, Alaska </font></div>
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