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Neat one - perhaps something in Lythraceae? Not an area with a lot of invasives but theoretically could be an established species. Dry Vernal flows out of Egg lake - only one we saw all day.

h 25, c ac 6, lf Length 18, lf width 3/4

undescribed sp first seen by @imlichentoday

found on kelp (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194171357)
but rearing when found, detached quickly

no wind, light to no surge, night, water temp 61 F, -0.8ft tide

On roadcut of old mining road, above Indian Flat substation. Not confined to roadcut - another population was located further up the slope about 100m, but no other populations seen in this area. Blue oak gray pine woodland, soil not especially sandy, slope about 15-30 degrees, semi-shaded.

Exciting! Instantly recognizable as the new genus & species first photographed by @chloe_and_trevor & identified as that by C.R. Bartlett: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107311379

Some notes:
1) Collected four specimens, two in 90% alcohol. Will deposit them in a collection (e.g., UC Riverside or could send them to UDelaware if there is interest)
2) Likely host-specific on Bebbia juncea. I consistently found them on Bebbia, but not on any other plants in the area. Should make collecting these much easier...
3) The darkness of the wing band seems quite variable
4) Not sure the status of this, e.g., if a description effort is already underway. But would be great to get this described (and perhaps also to be involved)

@nomolosx @delphax @hopperdude215

Definitely a new species. Entirely subterannean in habits, seemingly very restricted in range and only found on forested mountains in Marin and Sonoma county. Probably fairly sensitive to development and habitat disturbance.

Cardiophorinae? 3mm, found on snowpack. I swear this had a scintillating blue sheen to it when collected, like an S. metallicus. I may be able to see some scales left still. Or perhaps I was just going crazy from the sun..

Regardless, the smallest clicker we've ever seen.

Distinct antennae for Cholevinae. Found several under a dead mole. I'm not sure if this species is known from California? https://bioone.org/journals/the-coleopterists-bulletin/volume-71/issue-2/0010-065X-71.2.211/An-Annotated-Catalog-of-the-Leiodidae-Coleoptera-of-the-Nearctic/10.1649/0010-065X-71.2.211.short lists it as being found in Oregon, but it isn't too surprising that it would turn up in similar habitats here.

Tidepooling. Potential new species found by @chloe_and_trevor and collectively collected.

In the collection container it seemed to munch on some hydroids (photos 4-7).

Same individual as: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107604567

Seemed to key that way in Doyle & Stottler, at least, assuming this is even Riccia. Many growing in the drying mud to the west of Hidden Pond, seemed quite affixed to the substrate, no sign of sporophytes that I could see.

Swept from conifers, likely spruce (white/engelmann) or Abies lasiocarpa, fairly common in this area off of these conifers, and seen also one at Blackwater lake on 06/20.

Ground color black, pubescence with mixed white and orange hairs, so keys to U. granulosum, but not confident enough to be sure (not listed here: http://www.canacoll.org/Coleo/Checklist/PDF%20files/PTINIDAE.pdf).