A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388963%3A_____%2F21%3A00543023" target="_blank" >RIV/61388963:_____/21:00543023 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/21:89357
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12500" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12500</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12500" target="_blank" >10.1111/icad.12500</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe
Original language description
Against the context of global wildlife declines, targeted mitigation strategies have become critical to preserve what remains of biodiversity. However, the effective development of conservation tools in order to counteract these changes relies on unambiguous taxonomic determination and delineation. In this study, we focus on an endemic bumblebee species recorded only from the highest altitudes of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Bombus reinigiellus (Rasmont, 1983). The species has the smallest range of any European bumblebee, along with a restricted diet and an inability to disperse because of its isolated montane distribution, making it an appropriate conservation target. However, through an integrative taxonomic approach including genetics, morphometrics and semio-chemistry, we demonstrate the conspecificity of this taxon with one of the most common and widespread bumblebee species of Europe, Bombus hortorum (L. 1761). We assign a subspecies status to this endemic taxon (Bombus hortorum reinigiellus comb. nov.) shown to be different in colour and morphology but also in wing shape and relative wing size compared to the other conspecific subspecies. Following our taxonomic revision, we reassessed the IUCN conservation status of Bombus hortorum both at the continental and Spanish scale. We then propose how historic climatic oscillations of the last Ice age could explain such a phenotypic divergence in a post-glacial refugium and highlight the critical role of establishing unambiguous taxonomic revision prior to any conservation assessment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Insect Conservation and Diversity
ISSN
1752-458X
e-ISSN
1752-4598
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
661-674
UT code for WoS article
000653231000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106343981