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: 34602 genus: Eumorpha species: achemon sex: location: Patterson county: Stanislaus collector: not given coll_date: Jul 21 49 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34604 genus: Proserpinus species: clarkiae sex: location: Del Puerto Cyn, 22 mi W Patterson county: Stanislaus collector: G.A. Gorelick co... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34603 genus: Arctonotus species: lucidus sex: location: La Grange county: Stanislaus collector: R.P. Allen coll_date: Feb 2 64 specimen_lo... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34605 genus: Hyles species: lineata sex: location: La Grange county: Stanislaus collector: R.P. Allen coll_date: Jul 15 62 specimen_loc: U... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34601 genus: Hemaris species: diffinis sex: location: Del Puerto Cyn, 18 mi W Patterson county: Stanislaus collector: J.W. MacSwain coll_d... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34597 genus: Manduca species: quinquemaculatum sex: location: Patterson county: Stanislaus collector: not given coll_date: Jul 23 49 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34596 genus: Manduca species: sexta sex: location: La Grange county: Stanislaus collector: R.P. Allen coll_date: Jun 1 57 specimen_loc: UC... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34599 genus: Sphinx species: perelegans sex: location: Del Puerto Cyn county: Stanislaus collector: M. Hochberg coll_date: May 28 82 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34598 genus: Sphinx species: chersis sex: location: La Grange county: Stanislaus collector: R.P. Allen coll_date: Jul 10 60 specimen_loc: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34600 genus: Smerinthus species: cerisyi sex: location: I-5 Westley Rest Area county: Stanislaus collector: R.L.Langston coll_date: Aug 30... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 5030 genus: Pachysphinx species: occidentalis sex: M location: La Grange county: Stanislaus collector: R.P. Allen coll_date: Apr 11 53 spec... More