Stigmella progama
{{Short description|Species of moth endemic to New Zealand}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}
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| taxon =Stigmella progama
| authority = (Meyrick, 1924)
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|Nepticula progama|Meyrick, 1924
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Stigmella progama is a species of moth in the family Nepticulidae.{{Cite journal |last1=van Nieukerken |first1=Erik |last2=Doorenweerd |first2=Camiel |last3=Hoare |first3=Robert |last4=Davis |first4=Donald |date=2016-10-31 |title=Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea) |journal=ZooKeys |issue=628 |pages=65–246 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.628.9799 |issn=1313-2970 |pmc=5126388 |pmid=27917038 |doi-access=free}} This species is endemic to New Zealand and has only been collected on Bold Peak in the Humboldt Mountains. Larvae are leaf miners although their larval host plant has yet to be determined. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation. S. progama has only been collected on Bold Peak, in the Humboldt Ranges, in Otago.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1924 using a female specimen collected by George Hudson at Bold Peak, Lake Wakatipu in the Humboldt Mountains at 4000 ft. [1200 m] on the 5 January. Meyrick named the species Nepticula progama.{{cite journal|last1=Dugdale|first1=J. S.|date=1988|title=Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa|url=https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26324/FNZ14Dugdale1988.pdf|journal=Fauna of New Zealand|volume=14|pages=1–269|access-date=3 June 2018|ISBN=0477025188|archive-date=22 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722101744/https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26324/FNZ14Dugdale1988.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{Cite journal|last=Meyrick|first=Edward|author-link=Edward Meyrick|date=1924|title=Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera.|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33682527|journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute|language=en|volume=55|pages=661–662|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} George Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under that name in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.{{Cite book|url=http://www.bugz.org.nz/WebForms/ResultDetails.aspx?CurrentDoc=C7E94865-492F-45DA-9777-CC8E1E8B1438&back=true&NewDoc=true&searchType=1&SearchString=G.V.+Hudson|title=The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand|last=Hudson|first=G. V.|publisher=Ferguson & Osborn Ltd.|year=1928|location=Wellington|pages=356|oclc=25449322|author-link=George Hudson (entomologist)}} In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned this species to the genus Stigmella. This placement was confirmed in 1989. The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
File:Stigmella progama female holotype.jpg
Meyrick described this species as follows:
{{blockquote|♀. 5 mm. Head white, occipital hairs yellowish. Thorax white, dorsally irrorated blackish and grey. Forewings white; basal fourth irrorated grey and blackish; irregular pale-grey costal and dorsal blotches irrorated blackish beyond middle, meeting in disc; an apical greyish blotch irrorated blackish, leaving apex itself whitish: cilia whitish-grey, round apex whitish, basal half sprinkled blackish. Hindwings and cilia grey.}}Although similar in appearance to S. oriastra, S. progama can be distinguished as it has a submedial brown area on the forewing. As at 1989, male of the species has yet to be collected.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/15f71b6d-0357-4e43-a774-0051eae92ee8|title=Stigmella progama (Meyrick, 1924)|website=www.nzor.org.nz|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|access-date=2018-06-03}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973607714|title=New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils|publisher=Canterbury University Press|year=2010|isbn=9781877257933|editor-last=Gordon|editor-first=Dennis P.|volume=2|location=Christchurch, N.Z.|pages=461|oclc=973607714}} It has only been found in its type locality in the Humboldt Mountains in Otago at approximately 1200 m. above sea-level.{{Cite book|url=https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26306/FNZ16DonnerWilkinson1989.pdf|title=Nepticulidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)|last=Donner|first=Hans|last2=Wilkinson|first2=Christopher|date=1989|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|isbn=0477025382|location=Wellington, N.Z.|pages=32–33|oclc=20709336|archive-date=2019-01-27|access-date=2018-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127011827/https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26306/FNZ16DonnerWilkinson1989.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Biology and behaviour
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.{{Cite journal|last=Hoare|first=R.J.B.|last2=Dugdale|first2=J.S.|last3=Edwards|first3=E.D.|last4=Gibbs|first4=G.W.|last5=Patrick|first5=B.H.|last6=Hitchmough|first6=R.A.|last7=Rolfe|first7=J.R.|date=2017|title=Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/nztcs20entire.pdf|journal=New Zealand Threat Classification Series|volume=20|page=5}}
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Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Category:Endemic fauna of New Zealand