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: 11356 genus: Prionoxystus species: robiniae mixtus sex: location: Alabama Hills county: Inyo collector: D.S. Verity coll_date: May 28 60 s... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11353 genus: Acossus species: populi angrezi sex: location: Big Pine Cr at Sage Flat Cmpgrnd county: Inyo collector: T. Dimock coll_date: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11354 genus: Comadia species: henrici sex: location: Antelope Spring 8 mi SW Dp Spring county: Inyo collector: W.A. Foster coll_date: Jul ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11349 genus: Givira species: mucida (cornelia) sex: location: Death Valley county: Inyo collector: R.M.Brown coll_date: May 29 79 specimen... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11351 genus: Givira species: lotta sex: location: Jackass Spring, Hunter Mtn, Panamint Range county: Inyo collector: J. & K. Donahue c... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11352 genus: Givira species: cleopatra sex: location: Saline Valley county: Inyo collector: D. Guiliani coll_date: in Jul 76 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11350 genus: Givira species: ethela sex: location: Death Valley county: Inyo collector: R.M.Brown coll_date: Jul 26 75 specimen_loc: RMB U... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11348 genus: Hypopta species: palmata sex: location: Antelope Spr county: Inyo collector: D.Q. Cavagnaro coll_date: Aug 24 60 specimen_loc... More