Compiled from Kelly Richers' California Moth Specimen Database. Kelly has been compiling the database since 1996 from literature sources, museum collections, and (I believe) novel collections. These lists are probably not comprehensive (if such a thing is possible for such a diverse group of organisms), but given Kelly's dedication and the degree of sampling in the state, it's probably pretty close at the state and regional level, and approaching that degree at the county level, and thus I have marked them as comprehensive on iNat. All errors are my own, and if you find any, please let me know.
Notes On Missing Names
Many of the names in the CMSD have not bee included in the iNat lists I've created. I have tried to import every name from the Catalogue of Life, BugGuide, and uBio, so any names that are still missing are not present in those sources. I have also tried to manually check the remainder against http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species_list.php, I've tried to manually add any taxa that have a species page on MPG, and I've checked for simple misspellings of the kind the Google can catch. For the remainder, here are some of the reasons the names are missing:
A full listing of all the names I was not able to import can be found here.
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25492 genus: Proserpinus species: clarkiae sex: location: Limekiln Rd, 5 air mi SW Paicines county: San Benito collector: R.L.Langston, J.... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25491 genus: Arctonotus species: lucidus sex: location: Big Panache Cr county: San Benito collector: P. Opler coll_date: Apr 21 61 specime... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25494 genus: Hyles species: lineata sex: location: Pinnacles county: San Benito collector: R.L.Langston coll_date: Mar 18 72 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25490 genus: Hemaris species: senta sex: location: E Panoche Pass, 23 mi SE Paicines county: San Benito collector: R.L.Langston coll_date:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25488 genus: Smerinthus species: cerisyi sex: location: Pinnacles Nat Mon county: San Benito collector: R.M. Brown coll_date: Apr 3 86 spe... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 25489 genus: Pachysphinx species: occidentalis sex: location: Pinnacles NM county: San Benito collector: R. Wauer coll_date: in AUg 58 spe... More