Gumweed Plume Moth - Hodges#6100

See the identification key for Oxyptilini . See the species accounts in Matthews et al. and Barnes & Lindsey as Trichoptilus californicus . Dejongia californicus adults have: a forewing second lobe that is narrow with an acute apex, as in Buckleria , Dejongia lobidactylus , Trichoptilus , and Megalorhipida , and not broader with a well developed, curved outer margin, as in Sphenarches , Geina , Capperia , and Oxyptilus . antennae with longitudinal brown and white lines, as in Megalorhipida leucodactylus and unlike in Dejongia lobidactylus and Trichoptilus . diverging, disconnected, white subdorsal lines on abdominal segments two and three, extending across nearly the whole of both segments, and usually obsolete on segment 4, unlike in Dejongia lobidactylus (white subdorsal lines of segment three extended across only the posterior 1/2 to 2/3 of segment), unlike in Buckleria parvulus (continuous, white subdorsal lines across most segments, including segment four), and unlike in Trichoptilus (no conspicuous subdorsal lines). no white middorsal line on the abdomen, which is often present in Megalorhipida leucodactylus .