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: 14541 genus: Plutella species: albidorsella sex: location: San Clemente Is county: Los Angeles collector: coll_date: in May 2002 specimen... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14543 genus: Plutella species: xylostella sex: location: Big Dalton Dam county: Los Angeles collector: J. Powell coll_date: Mar 30 57 spec... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14542 genus: Eidophasia species: dammersi sex: location: Manhattan Beach county: Los Angeles collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Jun from... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14539 genus: Pliniaca species: bakerella sex: location: Bob's Gap county: Los Angeles collector: Leuschner, Richers coll_date: May 14 2005... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14540 genus: Pliniaca species: sparsisquamella sex: location: Claremont county: Los Angeles collector: coll_date: specimen_loc: URL: ht... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14537 genus: Euceratia species: castella sex: location: Tanbark Flat county: Los Angeles collector: coll_date: in Jun specimen_loc: CDFA ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14538 genus: Euceratia species: securella sex: location: Cloudburst Cyn county: Los Angeles collector: J. & K. Donahue coll_date: May ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 14536 genus: Eucalantica species: polita sex: location: Molly's county: Los Angeles collector: not given coll_date: specimen_loc: LACM UR... More