Santa Fe Dam. All on Croton californicus. Attempting to rear these 4 conservation. Note that despite all being camouflage-colored C. californicus has none of these textures on its body. They must get away with the poor camouflage somehow.
I've a C. californicus in a pot btw.
Update: they're respectively Scolops californicus (well, probably), Dictyssa obliqua, Xerophloea peltata. Feeding on C. californicus confirmed for the first, and probably for the third, judging by the latter's behavior. The dicty threw a fit after some hours (possibly from noxious phytochemistry increasing from my not having watered the host enough in the past, even though it was well watered at the time I offered it) but I offered it a bit of Cuscuta subinclusa and it fed on that.
Scolops californicus and Dictyssa obliqua are endemics, while Xerophloea peltata is more widespread and reported to be a minor pest of economic plants, but all 3 may be of some conservation value in my area due to their seemingly tight association with soft chaparral, a habitat type that is disproportionately destroyed in my area (unlike the very different-looking hard chaparral). Of course, being so understudied, no one actually knows exactly how threatened or not they are, so I'm going off educated guesses and all that.
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