Thank you to David Calvo and Catherine Ryan for sharing the following discovery and links!
After having been misidentified for more than sixty years, the newly identified butterfly makes its home in the spruce and aspen forest of the Tanana-Yukon River basin. Arctic species of butterflies such as the Tanana Arctic are able to survive in such extremely harsh conditions because their bodies produce a natural anti-freeze.
Why is this re-identification important? It could be holding clues about Alaska’s geological history. And the Tanana Arctic may be found to be the only butterfly endemic to Alaska. Also too it lives in an area where the permafrost is melting. Butterflies are known to quickly respond to climate change. The Tanana Arctic’s response could aid scientists in determining variaitions in the sensitive Arctic ecosystem.
Read More About the Tanana Arctic Butterfly Here:
Andrew Warren, who made the discovery, is the senior collections manager at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History. I had the great joy to travel with Thomas C. Emmel, the director at the McGuire Center, to Angangueo and interview him at the Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Biosphere reserve. You can watch the interview on youtube at this link.
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