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: 11252 genus: Agonopterix species: oregonensis sex: location: Lone Pine county: Inyo collector: V. Albu coll_date: May 16 2009 specimen_loc... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11254 genus: Depressariodes species: thoracefasciella sex: location: 8 mi NE Independence county: Inyo collector: P. Rude coll_date: May 1... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11256 genus: Ethmia species: charybdis sex: location: 4 mi W Bishop county: Inyo collector: D. Guiliani coll_date: Dec 7 93 specimen_loc: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11261 genus: Ethmia species: discostrigella discostrigella sex: location: Bishop Creek Lodge county: Inyo collector: K. Richers coll_date:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11262 genus: Ethmia species: semitenebrella sex: location: Bishop Creek Lodge county: Inyo collector: K. Richers coll_date: Jun 5 92 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11258 genus: Ethmia species: semilugens sex: location: Darwin Wash, 1-3 mi W Panamint Sprngs county: Inyo collector: P A Opler coll_date: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11260 genus: Ethmia species: arctostaphylella sex: location: Bishop Cr Lodge county: Inyo collector: Leuschner, Richers coll_date: Jun 24 ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 11259 genus: Ethmia species: epileuca sex: location: Surprise Cyn county: Inyo collector: J. Powell coll_date: Apr 24 57 specimen_loc: UCB... More