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This is Eutrichosoma mirabile, a parasitoid of seed-feeding weevil larvae. I'm uploading this as a reference because I'm hoping to get a better sense of their distribution from more observations. Sunflowers and acacia are among their known host plants.

14mm wingspan spread. Came to black light/MV trap (live oak/chaparral habitat).
100% DNA match at BOLD to Rectiostoma fernaldella. 2011GM-0757.

Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna alessandrae)
Identified as Dicranosterna alessandrae on Bowerbird by Ken Walker: "Dr Chris Reid (AM) made this identification and commented: "I transferred the species to this genus (from Paropsimelina Daccordi 2005, which became a junior syn) in 2006 (Zootaxa 1292, which is free online, abstract here: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01292p119f.pdf)". Chris also noted that he had not seen the larvae of this species and requested some specimens be sent to him."

wierd skinnies

1.2cm long ,weird appendages all over, pumps along like a maggot and uses tiny front legs as pointed too in the second photo (white arrow),its head pumps in and out. .appendages look as if they are made up of little clear beads.

Exciting stuff! Two adults and a subadult tightly rolled up in duff under a stone, all three of whom refused to uncoil for me. A nearby board yielded a third adult who was kind enough to move around a bit.

Globulus on a long stalk as before, but the organ itself seems somewhat larger in size. Anal plate either further reduced or sunken into the pygidium. The caudal flagellum is quite strange, beyond the normal fusiform portion near the base there is another large fusiform portion, seperated from the base by a clearly segmented portion, but this second fusiform portion is further seperated from the calyx by another segmented portion. Doesn't quite seem to be the same as either of my other two observations.