Stigmella progama
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Stigmella |
| Species: | S. progama |
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| Stigmella progama (Meyrick, 1924) | |
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Stigmella progama is a species of moth in the family Nepticulidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand and has only been collected on Bold Peak in the Humboldt Ranges, in Otago. Larvae are leaf miners although their larval host plant has yet to be determined. In 2025 this species was classified as "data deficient" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1924 using a female specimen collected by George Hudson at Bold Peak near Lake Wakatipu in the Humboldt Mountains at 4,000 feet (1,200 m) on the 5 January. Meyrick named the species Nepticula progama. Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under that name in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned this species to the genus Stigmella. This placement was confirmed in 1989. However in 2025 this moth is regarded as being taxonomically unresolved. The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Meyrick described this species as follows:
♀. 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. It has only been found in its type locality in the Humboldt Mountains in Otago at approximately 1200 m. above sea-level.
Biology and behaviour
Larvae of this species are leaf miners. Adults of this species are on the wing in January.
Conservation status
In 2025 this species was classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as "data deficient" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
- 1 2 3 Hoare, Robert J. B.; Edwards, Eric; Knox, Carey; Frost, Will; Michel, Pascale (2026). "Conservation status of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2025" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 51: 31. ISSN 2324-1713. Wikidata Q139379012.
- 1 2 "Stigmella progama (Meyrick, 1924)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2018-06-03.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Dugdale, John Stewart (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 54. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ↑ van Nieukerken, Erik; Doorenweerd, Camiel; Hoare, Robert J. B.; Davis, Donald Ray (2016). "Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)". ZooKeys. 628 (628): 65–246. doi:10.3897/zookeys.628.9799. PMC 5126388. PMID 27917038. Wikidata Q28109648.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Meyrick, Edward (1924). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 661–662. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110305498. BHL page 33682527
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Hudson, George Vernon (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 356, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286 BHL page 61899967 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Donner, Hans; Wilkinson, Christopher (1989). "Nepticulidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Fauna of New Zealand. 16: 32–33. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.16. OCLC 924829916. Wikidata Q45079930.
- ↑ Gordon, Dennis Preston, ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 461. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. LCCN 2011379669. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.