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: 1182 genus: Prionoxystus species: robiniae mixtus sex: F location: Potrero Cyn county: San Diego collector: C. Henne coll. coll_date: Jun 3... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27097 genus: Miacora species: perplexa sex: location: Julian county: San Diego collector: L.R. Hummer coll_date: Jul 8 96 specimen_loc: LA... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27094 genus: Givira species: mucida sex: location: Silverwood Wildlife Sanc county: San Diego collector: R.H.Leuschner coll_date: Sep 18 9... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27095 genus: Givira species: marga sex: location: Pine Valley county: San Diego collector: Barnes coll. coll_date: Jul 15-21 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27096 genus: Givira species: cleopatra sex: location: Valecito county: San Diego collector: L.M. Martin coll_date: Sep 16 45 specimen_loc:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27093 genus: Hypopta species: palmata sex: location: La Puerta Valley county: San Diego collector: E.H. Field coll_date: Jul 4 11 specimen... More