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: 13534 genus: Eumorpha species: achemon sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: May 20 53 specime... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13536 genus: Proserpinus species: clarkiae sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Apr 8 53 spec... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13535 genus: Arctonotus species: lucidus sex: location: Middletown county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Mar 12 53 specimen_lo... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13537 genus: Hyles species: lineata sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Apr 8 53 specimen_lo... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 2644 genus: Hemaris species: diffinis sex: M location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: W.R. Bauer coll_date: Jun 7 52 specimen_loc... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13529 genus: Sphinx species: perelegans sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: W.R. Bauer coll_date: Aug 21 49 specimen_l... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13530 genus: Sphinx species: sequoiae sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: Jul 20 50 coll_date: Jul 29 50 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13528 genus: Sphinx species: chersis sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Jul 7 56 specimen_l... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13531 genus: Smerinthus species: cerisyi sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Mar 12 53 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13533 genus: Pachysphinx species: occidentalis sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: W.R. Bauer coll_date: Jun 17 57 spe... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 13532 genus: Paonias species: excaecata sex: location: Anderson Springs county: Lake collector: W.R. Bauer coll_date: Jun 11 49 specimen_l... More