Stigmella propalaea
{{Short description|Species of moth endemic to New Zealand}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}
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| image = Stigmella propalaea male holotype.jpg
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| taxon =Stigmella propalaea
| authority = (Meyrick, 1889)
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|Nepticula propalaea|Meyrick, 1889
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Stigmella propalaea is a species of moth of 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 was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1889. It is endemic to New Zealand and has only been observed at Arthur's Pass. The larvae of this species are leaf miners. Adults are on the wing in January. This species is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using a specimen collected at Arthur's Pass at 600m above sea-level.{{cite journal |last1=Meyrick |first1=Edward |title=Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute |date=1889 |volume=21 |pages=154–188 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3290342 |access-date=3 June 2018 |language=en}}{{Source-attribution|no-icon=y}} Meyrick originally named the species Nepticula propalaea. George Hudson discussed this 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=355|oclc=25449322|author-link=George Hudson (entomologist)}} In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned this species to the genus Stigmella.{{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}} In 1989 Hans Donner and Christopher Wilkinson agreed with this placement in their monograph on New Zealand Nepticulidae. This placement was again confirmed in a 2016 revision of the global species placed in the family Nepticulidae. The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. This species is only known from its holotype and the specimen is in poor condition.{{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=34|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}}
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
{{blockquote|♀. 7mm. Head, palpi, antennæ, and thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen light grey. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior pair infuscated. Forewings lanceolate; whitish-ochreous, obscurely irrorated with brownish; a dark fuscous dot on fold at {{frac|1|4}}, a second in disc before middle, and a third immediately before apex: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey.}}
Distribution
It is endemic to New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/2118bb81-b5e7-42f7-a219-cce1fa1fb8c0|title=Stigmella propalaea (Meyrick, 1889)|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}} This species is only known from its type locality of Arthur's Pass.
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=8|isbn=9781988514383}}{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Stigmella propalaea |url=https://nztcs.org.nz/nztcs-species/30630 |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=nztcs.org.nz}}
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Category:Moths described in 1889
Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick