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: 29447 genus: Anoncia species: conia sex: location: San Bruno Mt county: San Mateo collector: J. DeBenedictis coll_date: May 27 82 specimen... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29448 genus: Anoncia species: orites sex: location: San Bruno Mts county: San Mateo collector: J. DeBenedictis coll_date: in 1987 specimen... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29449 genus: Periploca species: nigra sex: location: Woodside county: San Mateo collector: coll_date: in Mar specimen_loc: CDFA URL: http... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29451 genus: Walshia species: miscecolorella sex: location: Pacifica county: San Mateo collector: D.L. Wagner coll_date: Dec 14 83 specime... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29452 genus: Sorhagenia species: nimbosa sex: location: San Bruno Mt county: San Mateo collector: J. DeBenedictis coll_date: May 10 83 spe... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29450 genus: Stilbosis species: dulcedo sex: location: San Bruno Mt county: San Mateo collector: D.L. Wagner coll_date: Jun 11 86 specimen... More