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: 15209 genus: Hyalophora species: euryalus sex: location: 4244 A. de la Encinal county: Los Angeles collector: P & S Russell coll_date:... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15208 genus: Antheraea species: polyphemus polyphemus sex: location: 4244 A. de la Encinal county: Los Angeles collector: P & S Russel... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15207 genus: Saturnia species: albofasciata sex: location: Wrightwood county: Los Angeles collector: coll_date: 21 Oct to 9 Nov specimen_... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 456 genus: Saturnia species: walterorum sex: F location: Arroyo Seco Cyn county: Los Angeles collector: C. Hogue coll_date: Jun 8 54 specim... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15205 genus: Hemileuca species: burnsi sex: location: Little Rock Cr county: Los Angeles collector: R.Hamera coll_date: Oct 4 86 specimen_... More