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: 27089 genus: Synanthedon species: exitiosa sex: location: Miramar Naval Air Sta. county: San Diego collector: N. Bloomfield coll_date: in ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27086 genus: Synanthedon species: bibionipennis sex: location: 1 mi N Solana Beach county: San Diego collector: R.L. Langston coll_date: J... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 1181 genus: Synanthedon species: mellinipennis sex: F location: Del Mar county: San Diego collector: J.A.Comstock coll_date: Jul 6 46 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27087 genus: Synanthedon species: polygoni sex: location: Rancho St Park county: San Diego collector: L.Sherman coll_date: Apr 5 62 specim... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27088 genus: Synanthedon species: resplendens sex: location: Miramar Naval Air Sta. county: San Diego collector: N. Bloomfield coll_date: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27090 genus: Penstemonia species: hennei sex: location: Miramar Naval Air Sta. county: San Diego collector: N. Bloomfield coll_date: in Ju... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27085 genus: Paranthrene species: robiniae sex: location: Miramar Naval Air Sta. county: San Diego collector: N. Bloomfield coll_date: in ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 27084 genus: Zenodoxus species: heucherae sex: location: Lyon's Peak county: San Diego collector: J. Powell coll_date: Jul 10 63 specimen_... More